“There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.”

—  John Calvin

Sermon Number 10 on I Corinthians, 698. As quoted in John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989) by William J. Bouwsma, pp. 134–135.
Epistles to the Corinthians

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