Calvin: true religion is…

2007forest1Here indeed is pure and real religion; faith so joined with an earnest fear of God that this fear also embraces willing reverence, and carries with it such legitimate worship as is prescribed on the law. And we ought to note this fact even more diligently: all men have a vague general veneration for God, but very few really revenge him… (INSTITUTES, Battles edition, I:43)

Amen.
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