John Calvin Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• 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?

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  Father, Passion, Mean

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Men, Covering, Looks

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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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

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  Worship, Obedience

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• The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

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  Blood, Faults, Christ

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• To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

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  Mean, Insanity, Christ

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• The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

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  Heart, Vanity, Hypocrisy

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• Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

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  Wish, Acting, Inward

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• Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

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  Two, Sound, Knowledge Of God

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• Si creemos que el cielo es nuestra patria, es mejor para nosotros transmitir allí nuestras riquezas que conservarlas aquí, donde podemos perderlas por un traslado repentino.

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  Country, Believe, Heaven

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.57, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.

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  Men, Fire, Maintenance

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• It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.

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  Heart, Grace, Mind

  John Calvin (2002). “The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius”, p.287, Baker Books

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• For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him.

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  Hombres, Ceder, Dar

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.324, Oxford University Press

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• There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

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  Pride, People, Giving

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.39, Baker Books

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• First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.

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  Ease, Want, Scripture

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.40, Baker Books

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• The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.

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  Mother, Baby, Should

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• The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

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  Christian, Government, Honor

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 3”, p.78, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

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  Malo, Hombres, Gente

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• The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

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  Life Changing, Eye, Devil

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.628, Jazzybee Verlag

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