Praise God—it is almost Sunday. We get to go back to church! To help get us ready for worship, here are good words from the inimitable John Calvin, as they are found in his great “Institutes of the Christian Religion” book. . . .
“It would be just as futile for us to aim at righteousness without religion as it would be to make a beautiful display of a headless corpse! But to be truthful, religion is not only the head of righteousness and virtue, it is in a sense their soul as well, which gives them vitality. Men will never preserve fairness and love among each other without the fear of God.“That is why we call God’s worship the beginning and foundation of righteous-ness, seeing that, once it disappears, everything which men might contrive in order to live upright, chaste and sober lives is vain and empty in God’s sight."
