"Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy."
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"Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life."
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"Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are."
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"Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all"
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"Prayer is the chief exercise of faith."
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"When the Bible speaks, God speaks."
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"Satan is an astute theologian."
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"To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them."
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"We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow."
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"No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit."
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"Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty."
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"For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress."
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"Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God."
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"Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration."
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"Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it."
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"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."
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"Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments."
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"A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot"
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"Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain."
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"Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone."
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