Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.John Calvin
Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day set him on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
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The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the investigation of His essence, which we ought more to adore than meticulously to search out, but for us to contemplate H
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At this day ... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes ... but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
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Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have
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