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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence i

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. – John Calvin

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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? – John Calvin

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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. – John Calvin

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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. – John Calvin

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The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. – Paul Harris

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