Want Now Women Men Sense Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. - John Calvin
Freedom God God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. - John Calvin
God God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. - John Calvin
Science Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. - John Calvin
Intelligence There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. - John Calvin
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive. - John Calvin
Evil Will Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. - John Calvin
The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it. - Lukas Foss
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. - Jane Austen
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along. - Michael Phelps