French - Theologian | July 10, 1509 - May 27, 1564
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
John Calvin
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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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.
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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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.
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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
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Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
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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.
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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