"Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray."
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"Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit."
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"The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils."
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"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."
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"How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ."
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"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy."
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"Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness."
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"We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death."
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"For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15)."
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"Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy."
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"Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus."
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"Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God."
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"Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them."
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"Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults."
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"We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst."
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"The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them."
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"But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known."
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"When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit."
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"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."
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"The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it."
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