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#1

“We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.”
― John Calvin

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#2

“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”
― John Calvin

tags: calvinism, creation, joy, rejoice, splendor-of-creation, theology

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#3

“If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.”
― John Calvin

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#4

“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
― John Calvin

tags: conscience, soul, torture

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#5

“True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.”
― John Calvin

tags: calvin, faith

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#6

“Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.”
― John Calvin

tags: man

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#7

“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”
― John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

tags: gospel, heart

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#8

“The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.”
― John Calvin

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#9

“Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.”
― Thomas Watson

tags: christ, christianity, grace

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#10

“Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.”
― Thomas Watson

tags: eternity, sunrises, sunsets

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#11

“It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.”
― Thomas Watson, The Art of Divine Contentment

tags: anxiety, contentment

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#12

“Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.”
― Thomas Watson

tags: knowledge

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#13

“We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?”
― Thomas Watson, The Art of Divine Contentment

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#14

“Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

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#15

“Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

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#16

“We must love God more for what He is, than for what He bestows.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

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#17

“The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

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#18

“Obedience without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without obedience is lame.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

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#19

“God comes down to us by his Spirit, and we go up to him by prayer.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

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#20

“The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

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#21

“We pray most fervently when we pray most feelingly.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

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#22

“Be like Noah's dove. She made use of her wings to fly, but trust in the ark for safety.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

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#23

“Our sins should humble us, but they must not discourage us from coming to Christ.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

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#24

“If we do not regard God when he speaks to us, he will not regard us when we pray to him.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

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#25

“The race is short between the cradle and the grave!”
― Thomas Watson, The Essential Works Of Thomas Watson

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#26

“Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.”
― Jonathan Edwards

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#27

“Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.”
― Jonathan Edwards, A careful & strict inquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of the will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue & vice, reward & punishment, praise & blame...

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#28

“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”
― Jonathan Edwards

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#29

“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
― Jonathan Edwards

tags: inspirational-religious

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#30

“You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.”
― Jonathan Edwards

tags: christianity, lordship-salvation, reformed-theology, total-inability

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