Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions… — Quoted

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

John Calvin · Faith

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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.

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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

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

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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

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