John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)

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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

John Calvin

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

John Calvin

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

John Calvin

For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?

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