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Find important quotes and citations by the author Johannes Calvin.
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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over menQuote 2401
However many blessings we expect from God, his infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughtsMore quotes on the topics: blessing god liberality thoughts
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It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the resultsMore quotes on the topics: god misfortune grief sorrow misery condolence
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joyMore quotes on the topics: discovery joy self-development misery pain problems
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All men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common goodMore quotes on the topics: humanity birth mankind performance duty help
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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before GodQuote 2396
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soulMore quotes on the topics: conscience hell soul pain judgment virtue
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Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishmentsMore quotes on the topics: performance religion god
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowelsQuote 2393
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of ChristQuote 2392
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 prayQuote 2391
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoiceMore quotes on the topics: enjoyment happiness nature world intentions
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Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idolsQuote 2389
There is no worse screen to block out the spirit than confidence in our own intelligenceMore quotes on the topics: self-confidence intelligence spirit
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Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost his authorityMore quotes on the topics: richness authority god heart losses
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In our good works nothing is our ownQuote 312
If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to usMore quotes on the topics: faith heaven homeland property losses death