“If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.”

— John Calvin

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Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)

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John Calvin 161

French Protestant reformer 1509–1564

Bernard Groethuysen (1880–1946) French literary historian, translator and writer

Source: The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 93

“Give according to your means, or God will make your means according to your giving.”

John Hall (1829–1898) Presbyterian pastor from Northern Ireland in New York, died 1898

Reported in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), p. 194.

“What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all”

Georgette Heyer book Cotillion

Source: Cotillion

“If it is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Darkness That Comes Before

AJENCIS, THE THIRD ANALYTIC OF MEN
The Darkness That Comes Before (2004)

“What would we think of such a savage? And yet, according to the theologians, this is exactly the course pursued by God.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Why I Am an Agnostic (1896)
Context: Suppose we had a man in this country who could control the wind, the rain and lightning, and suppose we elected him to govern these things, and suppose that he allowed whole States to dry and wither, and at the same time wasted the rain in the sea. Suppose that he allowed the winds to destroy cities and to crush to shapelessness thousands of men and women, and allowed the lightnings to strike the life out of mothers and babes. What would we say? What would we think of such a savage? And yet, according to the theologians, this is exactly the course pursued by God.