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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Calvin on Doctrine and Life

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue, but of the life; is not apprehended by the intellect and memory merely, like other branches of learning; but it is received only when it possesses the whole soul, and finds its seat and habitation in the inmost recesses of the heart.

John Calvin
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