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John Calvin1509–1564

There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

John Calvin on happiness

Sermon Number 10 on I Corinthians, 698. As quoted in John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989) by William J. Bouwsma, pp. 134–135.

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