It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results. -John Calvin

 

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.


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This quote is just one of 9 total John Calvin quotes in our collection. John Calvin is known for saying 'It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.' as well as some of the following quotes.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

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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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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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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

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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.

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It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results. -John Calvin
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

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