The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it … - John Calvin

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If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way of expressing myself over the span of fifty years.

John Calvin

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

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The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it. . We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.

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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

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Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

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