"Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men."
-John Calvin
WomenView Quote
"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.“
-John Calvin
posted in Intelligence
Other Quotes by John Calvin
Discover more inspiring quotes by John Calvin
"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."
-John Calvin
TruthView Quote
"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."
-John Calvin
TrustView Quote
"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
-John Calvin
ScienceView Quote
"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
-John Calvin
KnowledgeView Quote
"No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief."
-John Calvin
GodView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City."
-E. Howard Hunt
IntelligenceView Quote
"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
-Aldrich Ames
IntelligenceView Quote
"We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap."
-Aldrich Ames
IntelligenceView Quote
"The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are."
-Aldrich Ames
IntelligenceView Quote
"There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results."
-Aldrich Ames
IntelligenceView Quote
"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
-Aldrich Ames
IntelligenceView Quote