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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.
We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.
To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law
God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.
Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
The Gospel acts without threats... it teaches us about the supreme goodwill of God towards us.
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction
There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.
How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.
If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.