Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
John CalvinCan true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
John CalvinMan is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
John Calvin