"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy." — John Calvin

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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

- John Calvin

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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.