“If anything happens in the daytime, we ask what it is and are not so frightened; but if there is a noise at night, terror seizes on all our senses.”
More from John Calvin
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
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“The most important thing in a blessed life is to be always tranquil and at peace,…”
“The old adage that the life of men is like a being at the point where two roads meet…”