Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.
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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Doctrine should be lived and practiced rather than just spoken about.
This quote by John Calvin emphasizes the importance of embodying one's beliefs and principles through actions rather than merely discussing them superficially. It suggests that true understanding and commitment to doctrine come from a lived experience of those beliefs, rather than just theoretical knowledge or verbal expression.
Themes
DoctrineLifeBeliefsActionsPrinciples
In practice
Example use cases
In a sermon on how to integrate faith into daily life.
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Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
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For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.
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