The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth

 

Although you feel that sin is not yet extinguished and that righteousness does not plainly live in you, you have no cause for fear and dejection, as if God were always offended because of the remains of sin, since by grace you are freed from the law, and your works are not tried by its standard. Let those, however, who infer that they may sin because they are not under the law, understand that they have no right to this liberty, the end of which is to encourage us in well-doing.

—John Calvin, French theologian