He (Calvin) was granted citizenship only in 1559, eighteen years after his return from Strasbiurg and five years before his death. 'Calvin's name is so closely linked with Geneva that it is often forgotten that he was a resident alien, a hired hand, a Frenchman in a foreign land.' wires Elsie Makes (John Calvin: writing on Pastoral Piety II - David B Calhoun, Knowing Gd and Ourselves, p 330
It i indeed bad to live under a prince with whom nothings permitted; but much worse under one by whom everything is allowed. - John Calvin, Institutes of Religion, IV.20.10,quoted in David B Calhoun, Knowing Gd and Ourselves, p 324
“I have a peaceful study, as a refuge from the hurries and noise of the world around me; the venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me, and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.” — Samuel Davies
Only when a mosquito lands on your testicles do you realise there is always a way to solve problems without recourse to violence. - unknown ? Confucius
“If the love of a father will not make a child delight in him, what will? Put, then, this to the venture: exercise your thoughts upon this very thing, the eternal, free, and fruitful love of the Father, and see if your hearts be not wrought upon to delight in him. I dare boldly say, believers will find it as thriving a course as ever they pitched on in their lives. Sit down a little at the fountain, and you will quickly have a further discovery of the sweetness of the streams. You who have run from him, will not be able, after a while, to keep at a distance for a moment." John Owen, The Glory of Christ(Page 36)
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