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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
John Calvin
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
John Calvin
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
John Calvin
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
John Calvin
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
John Calvin
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
John Calvin
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
John Calvin
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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
John Calvin
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin
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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
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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
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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
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