Who said...?"We, whom God has favored with the light of the Gospel, ought to acknowledge that we have been called in order that we may advance more and more in our obedience to God, and strive constantly to draw near to him. This is the real preservation of the soul, for by doing so we shall escape eternal perdition."
Josh was right. It was John Calvin.
Calvin was born with the name Jean Chauvin (or Cauvin, in Latin Calvinus) in Noyon, Picardie, France, to Gérard Cauvin and Jeanne Lefranc. In 1523, Calvin's father, an attorney, sent his fourteen-year-old son to the University of Paris to study humanities and law. By 1532, he had attained a Doctor of Laws degree at Orléans. A close friend of Calvin's, Nicholas Cop, found it necessary to flee Paris after giving a customary discourse in the Church of the Mathurins. The speech has long been rumoured to be the work of Calvin himself. Calvin took flight within a few days after Cop. Calvin sheltered at Angouleme with a friend, Louis du Tillet. After 1534, he became firmly entrenched within a Reformist belief, beyond that of humanist thought. In 1536, as he was forced to choose an alternate route in the face of imperial and French forces, he passed by Geneva. Guillaume Farel begged with Calvin to stay in Geneva and help the city. Despite wishing to further his journey, he settled in Geneva. After being expelled from the city, he served as a pastor in Strasbourg from 1538 until 1541, before returning to Geneva, where he lived until his death in 1564. (from Wikipedia)
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