"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."
-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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"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."
-John Calvin
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"Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?"
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"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
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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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