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This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
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We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.
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The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
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I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
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Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection now, however, she is cast into servitude.
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