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It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3)


John Calvin

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CALVIN JOHNSON For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that fee...
CALVIN JOHNSON Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over...
CALVIN JOHNSON The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
CALVIN JOHNSON Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
CALVIN COOLIDGE You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
CALVIN COOLIDGE In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all o...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the ...
CALVIN KLEIN From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate ...
CALVIN HARRIS In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it dif...
CALVIN TRILLIN Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoveris...
CALVIN TRILLIN There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would gue...
CALVIN TRILLIN I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my an...
CALVIN TRILLIN The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just th...
CALVIN TRILLIN As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
CALVIN TRILLIN There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
CALVIN TRILLIN Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to he...
CALVIN COOLIDGE When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
CALVIN COOLIDGE After all, the chief business of the American people is business.
CALVIN COOLIDGE The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with ...
CALVIN COOLIDGE It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in the World can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than...
CALVIN COOLIDGE If there has been any crime, it must be prosecuted. If there has been any property of the United Sta...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. ...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The tempt...
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