Ignorance of providence is the ultimate of all miseries; the highest blessedness lies in the knowledge of it.The highest form of blessedness comes from a certain sort of knowledge — namely, the knowledge of God’s providence.If this is true, why wouldn’t we seek to understand it more? Calvin
“In times of adversity, believers comfort themselves with the solace that they suffer nothing except by God’s ordinance and command, for they are under his hand.” Calvin
Adversity is something all Christians will face. And it’s something that Calvin knew well.
"People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked. And if one gains the immediate purpose of the lie - the price one pays is the destruction of what the gain was intended to serve. The man who lies to the world is the world's slave from then on." - Hank Rearden, character in Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_, Part 3, chapter 3: Anti-greed
"The people who give me the impression of being most miserable in their spiritual life are those who are always thinking of themselves and their blessings, their moods and states and conditions. The way to be blessed is to look to God." -- David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, GOD'S ETERNAL PURPOSE
The Lord blesses us more by punishing us, than he would have done by sparing us. — John Calvin
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