[famous-quotes-] John Calvin (1509-64), French-born Swiss Protestant theologian

“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the
bowels."

"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of
idols."

"Like water gushing forth from a large and copious spring, immense crowds of
gods have issued from the human mind, every man giving himself full license,
and devising some peculiar form of divinity, to meet his own views.

"Our feeling of ignorance, vanity, want, weakness, in short, depravity and
corruption, reminds us that in the Lord, and none but He, dwell the true
light of wisdom, solid virtue, exuberant goodness. We are accordingly urged
by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we
cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with
ourselves."

"All men promiscuously do homage to God, but very few truly reverence him.
On all hands there is abundance of ostentatious ceremonies, but sincerity of
heart is rare."

"It is most absurd, therefore, to maintain, as some do, that religion was
devised by the cunning and craft of a few individuals, as a means of keeping
the body of the people in due subjection ... I readily acknowledge, that
designing men have introduced a vast number of fictions into religion, with
the view of inspiring the populace with reverence or striking them with
terror, and thereby rendering them more obsequious; but they never could
have succeeded in this, had the minds of men not been previously imbued with
that uniform belief in God, from which, as from its seed, the religious
propensity springs."

"We have one kind of intelligence of earthly things, and another of heavenly
things."

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