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When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.

John Calvin

Faith, Religious, Strong

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Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.

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Godly, Doubt, Mind

John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.415, Oxford University Press

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In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

John Calvin

Song, Moving, Heart

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Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

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Giving, Heaven, Remembrance

Mortimer J. Adler, John Calvin (1993). “Institutes of the Christian religion”

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Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

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Hypocrisy, Empty, Enough

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.44, Jazzybee Verlag

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The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.

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Children, Exercise, Giving

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To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation. ... No one can be justified by the law; justification is through faith alone.

John Calvin

Jesus, Law, Understanding

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The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

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Enemy, Should, More Time

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When we know God to be our Father, should we not desire that he be known as such by all? And if we do not have this passion, that all creatures do him homage, is it not a sign that his glory means little to us?

John Calvin

Father, Passion, Mean

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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

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Grace, Ifs

"God the Redeemer: Institutes of The Christian Religion".

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Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

John Calvin

Guilt, Unjust, Heretic

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After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things come if not from the hand of God? [In response to these diseases] The world was astounded, and people were terrified for a time, but they have not, to this day, observed the hand of God.

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Hands, Years, People

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The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

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Prayer, Answers, Facts

John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Psalms”, p.789, Ravenio Books

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This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.

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Fall, Anvils, Entertainment

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Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?

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Glamour, Garments, Fixed

John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.88, Baker Books

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When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.

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Holiness, Unions, Remember

John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.17, Baker Books

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The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

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Sacrifice, Thankfulness, Tables

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We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.

John Calvin

Men, Covering, Looks

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If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

John Calvin

Fire, Gold, God With Us

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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

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Soul, Criminal Mind, Hell

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Gilbert Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 157, 1895.

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Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

John Calvin

Worship, Obedience

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The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.

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Stewardship, Tested

John Calvin (2009). “The Christian Life”, p.8, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

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John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.265, Jazzybee Verlag

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The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

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Shining, Glory, Crosses

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If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.

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Faith, Religious, Would Be

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Born: July 10, 1509
Died: May 27, 1564
Occupation: Theologian
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