"Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men."
-John Calvin
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"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.“
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"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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"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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"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
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"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence."
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