"Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to……" — John Calvin

"Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God."

— John Calvin

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