“But this we may positively state, that nobody has made any progress in the school of Christ unless he cheerfully looks forward to the day of his death and to the day of the final resurrection.”

—  John Calvin

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Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)

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French Protestant reformer 1509–1564

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