Jonathan Adams

“The Holy Spirit has consecrated us as temples of God. We, therefore, must let the glory of God shine through us, and we must not pollute ourselves with sin.”
― John Calvin, A Little Book on the Christian Life

“Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God … without knowledge of God there is no knowledge of self.”
― john calvin

“Hero-worship is innate to human nature, and it is founded on some of our noblest feelings,—gratitude, love, and admiration.—but which, like all other feelings, when uncontrolled by principle and reason, may easily degenerate into the wildest exaggerations, and lead to most dangerous consequences.”
― John Calvin, A Treatise on Relics

“We carefully conceal our abundant vices from others—and we pretend they’re small and insignificant. In fact, we so delude ourselves that we sometimes embrace our vices as virtues. When”
― John Calvin, A Little Book on the Christian Life