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John Calvin

: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait

This selection of the writings of John Calvin (1509—1564) is the first for general readers to appear in many years. It showcases his powerful legacy, which has had far-reaching consequences for the development of religion and culture in Western Europe and

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“Those who are extremely anxious wear themselves out and become in a sense their own executioners.”

— John Calvin, amazon.com

Tagged: Anxious, wear, executioner, Anxiety, Mind

“The most important thing in a blessed life is to be always tranquil and at peace, terrorized by no one.”

— John Calvin, amazon.com

Tagged: Important, Life, Blessed, tranquil, Peace

“The old adage that the life of men is like a being at the point where two roads meet refers not only to the general course of life but to individual action. For no sooner do we undertake the least thing than we are pulled hither and yon, and we mix together opposing counsels as though tossed by a st…”

— John Calvin, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Men, Being, road, Living

“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.”

— John Calvin, amazon.com

Tagged: Day, Night, happen, Fear, frightened

“We are always fearful for ourselves in this life.”

— John Calvin, amazon.com

Tagged: fearful, Fear, Life, Living, human

“Before men decline into old age, even in the very bloom of youth, they are involved in many troubles, and they cannot escape from the cares, weariness, sorrows, fears, griefs, inconveniences, and anxieties to which mortal life is subject.”

— John Calvin, amazon.com

Tagged: Men, Age, Old, Youth, Bloom

“We take nothing from the womb but pure filth [meras sordes]. The seething spring of sin is so deep and abundant that vices are always bubbling up form it to bespatter and stain what is otherwise pure.... We should remember that we are not guilty of one offense only but are buried in innumerable impu…”

— John Calvin, amazon.com

Tagged: womb, Worth, filth, Pure, Purity

“How incredible...the affection of a mother is for the infant whom she warms in her bosom and nurses and watches over with care, so that she passes sleepless nights, worries continually, and forgets herself!”

— John Calvin, amazon.com

Tagged: affection, mother, infant, Child, aby

“There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.”

— John Calvin, amazon.com

Tagged: Color, rejoice, Joy, Nature, Natural