Soli Deo gloria (English)

“…whoever is utterly cast down and overwhelmed by the awareness of his calamity, poverty, nakedness, and disgrace has thus advanced farthest in knowledge of himself. For there is no danger of man’s depriving himself of too much so long as he learns that in God must be recouped what he himself lacks. Yet he cannot claim for himself ever so little beyond what is rightfully his without losing himself in vain confidence and without usurping God’s honor, and thus becoming guilty of monstrous sacrilege. And truly, whenever this lust invades our mind to compel us to seek out something of our own that reposes in ourselves rather than in God, let us know that this thought is suggested to us by no other counselor than him who induced our first parents to want to become ‘like gods’, knowing good and evil’ [Gen. 3:5]. If it is the devil’s word that exalts man in himself, let us give no place to it unless we want to take advice from our enemy.”
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion II.2.10 (trad. McNeill, pp. 267-8).

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