"When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers."
"No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone."
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Source: John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com
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