"When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers."
"It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself."
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Source: John Calvin, Mark DeVries, Kirk Freeman (1999). “Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.15, B&H Publishing Group
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