John Calvin Quotes

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

John Calvin

• Patience
• Sin
• Perfection

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• To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

  

  John Calvin
  • Patience
  • Sin
  • Perfection