You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
From John Calvin
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
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.
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
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