Quote by John Calvin
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attribut

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. – John Calvin

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Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. – John Calvin

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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. – John Calvin

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How quickly we forget Gods great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past. – David Wilkerson

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. – Voltaire

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White… is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends. – Ethel Watts Mumford

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