However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our … - John Calvin

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Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.

John Calvin

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

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The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it. . We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.

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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

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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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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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