There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. – John Calvin
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. – John Calvin

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. – John Calvin
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. – John Calvin
Mans 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
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us – as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. – John Calvin
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. – Lewis Thomas