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.
From John Calvin
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
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.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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.
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
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.
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
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