Calvin on True Faith

We hold God alone to be the sole governor of our souls, that we hold his law to be the only rule and spiritual directory of our consciences, not serving him according to the foolish inventions of men; and that according to his nature would be worshipped in spirit and in purity of heart. We acknowledge that there is nothing but wretchedness in ourselves, and that we are corrupt in all our feelings and affections, so that our souls are a very abyss of iniquity, utterly despairing of ourselves. And that, having exhausted every presumption of our own wisdom, worth or power of well doing, we must have recourse to the fountain of every blessing, which is in Christ Jesus, accepting that which he confers on us, that is the merit of his death and passion, that by this means we might be reconciled to God.