"If I were to calculate the impact that various writers have had on me—and there have been many who have—C
Hegeman offers a thick description of culture
because—as with any other language—you will need to study hard in order to master it
and one of the consequences of our trying to read the Scriptures without any poetry in our souls will be the eventual destruction of any possibility of ministering to souls
and we get to start redeeming them in the present
Calvin's Institutes: Book III Dracula "If I were to calculate[Our] renewal, indeed, is not accomplished in a moment, a day, or a year, but by uninterrupted, sometimes even by slow progress God abolishes the remains of carnal corruption in His elect, cleanses them from pollution, and consecrates them as His temples, restoring all their inclinations to real purity, so that during their whole lives they may practice repentance, and know that death is the only termination to this warfare. ~From Book III of the