We should forever keep in mind that we must not brood on the wickedness of man, but realize that he is God’s image bearer. - John Calvin

But this we may positively state, that nobody has made any progress in the school of Christ unless he cheerfully looks forward to the day of his death and to the day of the final resurrection.

You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.

There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.