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"Bernard (of Clairvoux) agrees with Augustine when he makes the church speak thus: "Draw me, however unwilling, to make me willing; draw me, slow-footed, to make me run."
Beautiful.

“For when we see the bread presented to us as sign and sacrament of the body of Jesus Christ, we must at once grasp this analogy: that as bread nourishes, sustains, and preserves the life of our body, so also Jesus Christ's body is the food, nourishment, and preservation of our spiritual life.” -Calvin on Communion

“Jesus is the food of our faith”- Pat Nemmers

Calvin used Bernard of Clairvoux and Augustine to put beautifully the barbarity of man's nature.

“For it is no slight stimulus to us to bring [children] up in the fear of God, and the observance of his law, when we reflect that from their birth they have been considered and acknowledged by him as his children.”

Calvin’s theology and explanation of Baptism is impeccable. Certainly one we ought to resource more often.

“For how sweet is it to pious minds to be assured not only by word, but by ocular demonstration, that they are so much in favor with their heavenly Father, that he interests himself in their prosperity!”