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Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

John Calvin

Humility, Pride, Men

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai (Annotated Edition)”, p.48, Jazzybee Verlag

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

John Calvin

Pride, Men, Vanity

John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.24, Lulu.com