Black graphic with a portrait of John Calvin (1509–1564) beside a quote from The 35th Sermon of John Calvin upon Deuteronomie: “When we be at our ease, we think no more upon our human wretchedness; but rather we imagine that we be exempted, and that we be no more of the common sort. And that causeth us to forget ourselves, so that we have no compassion of our neighbors, nor of anything that they endure.“
Calvin: comfort breeds a quiet arrogance. We begin to imagine ourselves exempt from common human wretchedness. That self-forgetting kills compassion—we stop noticing what our neighbors endure, let alone caring about it.
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