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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.

~John Calvin

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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

~John Calvin

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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

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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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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Theologian

Born: July 10th, 1509

Died: May 27th, 1564

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