Man by nature loves himself in a wrong way; in fact, he loves only himself. This perverse disposition cannot be corrected, unless he puts the neighbor in his place. … the command can be understood in the sense that we love only our neighbor, and this […]
If you live simply to gratify your ambition, if you live for avarice, if you live to please yourself, if you live for any earthly object which can be comprised under the term “after the flesh,” you will certainly be disappointed, for you will die, and […]
It is an evil which prevails everywhere among mankind, that everyone sets himself above others. —John Calvin
Lord, give me a patient spirit, so that I may not seek to avenge myself, even when I might righteously do so!
I dare say that I would not willingly and resolvedly sin against Christ for a world. I will rather leap into a bonfire than wilfully to commit wickedness, wilfully to sin against God. I can say, through grace, were I this moment to die, that my […]