On Not Going Mad

“For what madness it is that, because we do not understand why God has chosen some and rejected others, or how God governs the world, or how it is that the devil himself cannot do anything without permission, and that the wicked are instruments of God’s justice – madness, I say, it is, that we, worms of the earth, stinking carrion, should take such authority upon us as to say that the thing ought to be erased out of the holy Scripture, which not only has been revealed to us by the Holy Spirit, but also sealed with the blood of God’s Son.”John Calvin