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1509–1564 France
John Calvin (10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was a major French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation; he is renowned for his teaching and infamous for his role in the execution of Michael Servetus.
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There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
It is easy to see how superstition, with its false glosses, mocks God, while it tries to please him.
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.
If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
Helvidius has shown himself too ignorant, in saying that Mary had several sons, because mention is made in some passages of the brothers of Christ.
Depraved custom is just a kind of general pestilence in which men perish not the less that they fall in a crowd.
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.
For in the cross of Christ, as in a splendid theatre, the incomparable goodness of God is set before the whole world.
It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
Genesis (1554)
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
Human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error.
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.
A Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.
All events whatsoever are governed by the secret counsel of God.
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