The flesh is always seeking to build its nest for ever here . . . and were we not tossed hither and thither… we would .. . forget heaven.
The only way to walk through life happily is to walk holily and harmlessly in the world, in the service and fear of God.
Christ is little esteemed by us, when the admiration of worldly glory lays hold on us.
They who desire to be happy in the world, renounce heaven.
We ought to apply our minds to meditation upon a future life, so that this world may become cheap to us.
All worldly men … are justly punished . . . Each has his own executioner.
J. Calvin