18 Quotes by John Calvin about christian

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    All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

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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.

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    Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.

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    Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and kindly receives them, and dedicates them to the Father by a solemn act of blessing.

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    Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

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    The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

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    The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

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