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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

Justify, Not Alone

John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.198, Oxford University Press

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

Men, Destruction, Source

John Calvin (2014). “Obtaining the Grace of Christ: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 3)”, p.235, ReadHowYouWant.com

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

Knowing, Doe, Knowing God

The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

Men, Light, Way

Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.

Goal, Forever, Glory

Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

Church, Faults, Heard

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

Prayer, Powerful, Men

True faith is ever connected with hope.

Faith, Christian, Connected

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistle To The Hebrews (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

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.

Flesh, Spirit, Repentance

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

Suffering, Chance, Inevitable

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

Christian, Heart, Giving

The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

Mean, Sheep, Two

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistles To Timothy, Titus And Philemon (Annotated Edition)”, p.262, Jazzybee Verlag

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

Christian Inspirational, Miracle, Remember

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

Men, Giving, Grace

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.193, Wipf and Stock Publishers

The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

Luxury, Evil, Ease

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

Wine, Laughing, Drink

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

Faith, Religious, Unseen

Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.

Adoption, Divine, Evidence

John Calvin (2002). “Tracts and Treatises of John Calvin, 3 Volumes”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!

Peaceful, Doe, Delight

When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

Speak

Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

Son, Anchors, Heaven

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

Adversity, Men, Matter

John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.670, Ravenio Books

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

Jesus, Heart, Joy

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

Men, Spirit, Revelations

John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.1139, Ravenio Books

Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.299, Jazzybee Verlag

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