I just began reading a book on John Calvin. It was one of the plethora of books written on Calvin during 2009, which marked his 500th birthday. This particular one was written by 20 different men, each covering a different topic. I wanted to share some of the quotes I found challenging in the foreword by Iain Murray.
Quoting Calvin, he says "true piety" is "a pure and true zeal which loves God altogether as Father, and reveres him truly as Lord, embraces his justice and dreads to offend him more than to die."
Again quoting Calvin, "We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies dependent on his sovereign pleasure."
"For Calvin, to accept compromise when Scripture has spoken is to affront the divine majesty of the Author."
Calvin: "When any person has fixed his eyes on God, his heart will be invincible, and utterly incapable of being moved."
"Our trifling concerns and our worldliness result from the poverty of our knowledge of God."
"Truth is only rightly believed to the extent that it is embodied in life."
Should be a both challenging and inspiring book if the rest of it is anything like the foreword! Let us "press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of [us]." I have so far to go, but the only reason I can take hope and continue to fight against sin and for holiness is because Jesus has first taken hold of me. It's not a fighting to be accepted, it's a fighting because I am accepted.
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