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Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

This book is a classic work that delves into the spiritual and ethical aspects of Christian life, offering insights into the path to spiritual growth and salvation. more

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John Calvin
John Calvin

John Calvin (July 10, 1509 - May 27, 1564) was a significant figure in the 16th-century Protestant Reformation and the founder of the Calvinist branch of Protestantism. He was a theologian, philosopher, and Christian reformer whose theological ideas had a profound impact on subsequent generations. more

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“No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority [of Christians] are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.”

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“First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.”

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“To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.”

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“Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7).”

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