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It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility faith! (Institutio III.2.3)

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

John Calvin
Faith, Ignorance, Humility

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

John Calvin
Ignorance, Divine Will, Divine
John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.491, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life.

John Calvin
Father, Ignorance, Christ
Mortimer J. Adler, John Calvin (1993). “Institutes of the Christian religion”

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
Prayer, Ignorance, Would Be
John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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