It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.
John CalvinIn vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.
John Calvin