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    John Calvin

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    For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. ↗


    — John Calvin

    #avoid #god #great #him #mighty

    You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. ↗


    — John Calvin

    #discover #joy #must #order #submit

    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 pray. ↗


    — John Calvin

    #even #freedom #god #ignorance #inadvertently

    We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too. ↗


    — John Calvin

    #miracles #must #remember #satan #too

    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

    #blessings #committed #condition #deposits #dispensed

    Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ↗


    — John Calvin

    #christ #heavenly #knowledge #much #science

    There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God. ↗


    — John Calvin

    #does #god #however #sordid #vile

    Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. ↗


    — John Calvin

    #men #now #over #past #quite

    Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. ↗


    — John Calvin

    #assistance #augustine #choose #disagree #does

    There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. ↗


    — John Calvin

    #confidence #intelligence #our #out #own






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    Although a wedding date was planned for March 1540 he remained reluctant and the wedding never took place. Like the other Reformers Calvin understood work as a means through which the believers expressed their gratitude to God for their redemption in Christ and as a service to their neighbors. And now O Lord what remains to a wretch like me but instead of defence earnestly to supplicate you not to judge that fearful abandonment of your Word according to its deserts from which in your wondrous goodness you have at last delivered me.

    The city council resisted the implementation of Calvin's and Farel's ideas and both men were expelled. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Calvin's writing and preachings provided the seeds for the branch of theology that bears his name.

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