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" There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. "
John Calvin
Own
Intelligence
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" Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. "
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" Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. "
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" Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. "
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