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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»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Joy
| Keywords:
blade, color in, grass, intended, rejoice
«Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| Keywords:
in the midst, midst, overwhelmed, perish, pilot, sail, ship, shipwrecked, shipwrecks, steered, steering, steers, weariness
«There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Confidence,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
block, block out, screen, screened, screening, screens, screen out
«God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
attributes, damnation, display, eternal damnation, merit, of their own, salvation
«You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy»
«We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.»
«Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ»
«It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results»
«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»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Forgiveness,
God,
Ignorance
| Keywords:
escapes, inadvertently, mercy, No Mercy, pardoning, pardons, stammer, stammering, tolerates
«However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Blessings
| Keywords:
blessings, exceed, liberality
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