"How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?"

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Source: John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.380, Oxford University Press

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John Calvin

Theologian, Reformer

John Calvin was a theologian whose work, 'Institutes of the Christian Religion,' laid the foundation for Reformed Christianity and influenced modern Protestantism.

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