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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

John Calvin
God, Giving, Judging
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 Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with
nothing to offer and everything to recieve
John Calvin
Christian, Hands, Empty
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We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we

first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
John Calvin
Firsts, Christ, Righteousness
John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Romans”, p.166, Ravenio Books
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw

that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin
Christian, Dog, Religious
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 For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a
human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has
not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own
 house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure
refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in
the womb before it has come to light.
John Calvin
Mother, Men, Light
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

John Calvin
Faith, Humility, Christianity
 John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Ezekiel 1- 12 (Annotated
Edition)”, p.84, Jazzybee Verlag
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 Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

John Calvin
Faith, Religious, Prayer
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 I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
John Calvin
Christ, Found, Gave Up
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 Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

John Calvin
Justification, True Religion, Turns
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 Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear
and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how
much they are indebted to His mercy.
John Calvin
Heart, Men, Worship
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 Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

John Calvin
Sacrifice
John Calvin (2002). “Tracts and Treatises of John Calvin, 3 Volumes”, Wipf and Stock
Publishers
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 If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the

steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
John Calvin
Fall, Firsts, Steps
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 Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love
God.
John Calvin
Godly, Christian Love, May
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 Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly
science of Christ.
John Calvin
Science, Religion, Christ
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 We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it

when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is
weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
John Calvin
Wavering, Weak, Dormant
John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Psalms”, p.340, Ravenio Books
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 Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and

gives us a clear view of God.
John Calvin
Views, Giving, Darkness
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 Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

John Calvin
Poverty, Prosperity, Dangerous
John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Isaiah 33- 48”, p.199, Jazzybee
Verlag
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 Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises
from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of
the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
John Calvin
Flesh, Spirit, Repentance
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 Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let
us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear
all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through
our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth
and nail.
John Calvin
Fighting, Teeth, Nails
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 men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from
adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are
intoxicated by their success
John Calvin
Adversity, Men, Matter
John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.670, Ravenio Books
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 To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander

unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace
we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the
law engraved upon our hearts.
John Calvin
Christian, Heart, Mean
Jean Calvin, John Calvin, Ford Lewis Battles (1995). “Institutes of the Christian
Religion”, p.30, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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 Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not
therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a
manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
John Calvin
Doe, Suspense, Delay
John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on the Gospel of John”, p.57, Ravenio Books
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 While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for
it from God.
John Calvin
Men, Looks, Hundred
John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Psalms”, p.496, Ravenio Books
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 We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.

John Calvin
Promise, Rely, Obeying
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 We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not
answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually
need.