I promise I won’t fill this blog with quotes from my daily readings in Institutes of the Christian Religion all year, but I simply can’t help but share this one!
We must be persuaded not only that as he once formed the world, so he sustains it by his boundless power, governs it by his wisdom, preserves it by his goodness, in particular, rules the human race with justice and judgment, bears with them in mercy, shields them by his protection; but also that not a particle of light, or wisdom, or justice, or power or rectitude, or genuine truth, will anywhere be found, which does not flow from him, and of which he is not the cause; in this way we must learn to expect and ask all things from him, and thankfully ascribe to him whatever we receive.
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, trans. Henry Beveridge (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989), 1.2.1.
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that’s a great quote. Somehow in my head I have a picture of you holding the Institutes book and practically jumping from side to side like my boys do “listen to this!! listen to this!!” it’s great, keep up the zeal. (and the quotes too!! )