John Calvin's best senior pic
"Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and
superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is
certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain."
"Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.... Man's
mind, full as it is of pride and boldness, dares to imagine a god
according to its own capacity; as it sluggishly plods, indeed is
overwhelmed with the crassest ignorance, it conceives an unreality and
an empty appearance as God.... To these evils a new wickedness joins
itself, that man tries to express in his work the sort of God he has
inwardly conceived. Therefore the mind begets an idol; the hand gives it
birth.... Daily experience teaches that flesh is always uneasy until it
has obtained some figment like itself in which it may fondly find
solace as in an image of God."
- John Calvin
"Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end." - Hebrews 3:12-14
Large and small,
magnificent and humble -
places where Christians meet to worship God
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Salisbury Cathedral
The Young Martin Luther
long before 1517
