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Everyone flatters himself and carries a kingdom in his breast.

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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to all for though Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world, and is offered through God’s benignity indiscriminately to all, yet all do not receive him.
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Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.
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Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
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