Schiraldi Calvin Quotes

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls. ~ Calvin Coolidge

There is no wisdom but that which is focused on the fear of God. ~ John Calvin

The disposition of the heart is man's, but the preparation of the tongue is the Lord's." [Prov. 16:1, 9, conflated.] It is an absurd folly that miserable men take it upon themselves to act without God, when they cannot even speak except as he wills! ~ John Calvin

I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident. ~ Hanneli Mustaparta

If the testimony by which the Jews were assured of the salvation of their posterity is taken away from us, the coming of Christ would have the effect of making God's grace more obscure and less well attested to us than it was to the Jews before us. ~ John Calvin

[God] does not bind the ancient folk to outward doctrine as if they were learning their ABC's. ~ John Calvin

God did not make us robots. In spite of the denial by Luther, Calvin, and many evangelical leaders today, God gave man a will to freely choose to love or to hate Him, to receive Christ as Savior and Lord or to reject Him. ~ Dave Hunt

The illumination of our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith flows from regeneration as from its source; but since it is by the same faith that we receive Christ, who sanctifies us by his Spirit, on that account it is said to be the beginning of our adoption. ~ John Calvin

Our advertising partnership with Allegiant Air is a natural fit for us. Branding encompasses everything from good customer service to strategic advertising positioning and targeting. This in-air branding exercise will allow us to target a specific player demographic, while continuing to expand the presence of our brand throughout the continental United States. ~ Calvin Ayre

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. ~ Calvin Coolidge

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. ~ Calvin Coolidge

God has so ordained and governed the Christian church that the cross has been the preparation for victory, and death the way to life. Such ~ John Calvin

Extraordinary - that Willowdale Academy and Calvin Coolidge High School should both be institutions of learning! The contrast is stunning. I had a leisurely tea with the Chairman of the English Department. I saw several faculty members sitting around in offices and lounges, sipping tea, reading, smoking. Through the large casement windows bare trees rubbed cozy branches. (One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them"!) Old leather chairs, book-lined walls, air of cultivated casualness, sound of well-bred laughter. ~ Bel Kaufman

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism. ~ Calvin Trillin

Don't mess with me, Calvin. You'll only get hurt. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I was confident that it [would] not in any way affect my ability to be impartial, objective and non-partisan. ~ Calvin Cheng

It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people. ~ Calvin Coolidge

The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty. ~ Calvin Coolidge

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. ~ John Calvin

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are. ~ John Calvin

Sometimes, PTSD sufferers will shut out memories of painful periods in their lives and experience amnesia. Thus, a traumatized individual might not remember when his spouse died in a car accident. Another person who was abused might have gaps in her memory of childhood. ~ Glenn Schiraldi

Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world. ~ John Calvin

Still nobody knows better than those who preach that preaching is an art in which a studied, professional sinner tells the less studied sinners how they ought to believe, behave, and serve. ~ Calvin Miller

You're good in school. Everybody likes you." "For all the most unimportant reasons," Calvin said. "There hasn't been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn't me. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply. ~ Calvin Coolidge

The whole point lies here: we should reflect that we are promised long life in so far as it is a blessing of God; and that it is a blessing only in so far as it is an evidence of God's favor, which he testifies to his servants far more richly and substantially through death, and proves it in the reality. ~ John Calvin

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish. ~ Calvin Coolidge

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here. ~ Bill Watterson

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian! ~ Bill Watterson

Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world. ~ John Calvin

All White House hopefuls we forewarn:
You'll have to prove that you were born.
Before Trump hits the state of granite,
He must identify the planet
Where he first took on human form -
A place where blowhards are the norm. ~ Calvin Trillin

Then let us not think that this Law is a special Law for the Jews; but let us understand that God intended to deliver us a general rule, to which we must yield ourselves. Since, it is so, it is to be concluded, not only that it is lawful for all kings and magistrates, to punish heretics and such as have perverted the pure truth; but also that they be bound to do it, and that they misbehave themselves towards God, if they suffer errors to rest without redress, and employ not their whole power to shew greater zeal in their behalf than in all other things. ~ John Calvin

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.1 - JOHN CALVIN ~ Mike Bickle

God does not measure the precepts of his law by human strength, but, after ordering what is right, freely bestows on his elect the power of fulfilling it. ~ John Calvin