John Calvin:

We are not our own: let not our reason nor our will, therefore, sway our plans and deeds. We are not our own: let us therefore not set it as our goal to seek what is expedient for us according to the flesh.

— John Calvin Early Modern

Protestant reformer

Context

From the Institutes, on self-denial.

Date / Period

1536

Source

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.iii.vii.html

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