As much as we be frail and have a rough and thorny way to go, yea and there be many stops to bar us, so as it will seem that there be great mountains to make us turn back again; let us pray to our God to give us strength to go on still forward. For if he strengthened Caleb and Joshua; let us assure ourselves he will do the like to us. And therewithal if we see that the world hinder us, and there is a store of stumbling blocks on all sides, let us pray to God that He suffer us not to be corrupted with others, but that we may bear him the honour to stick unto him and to yield ourselves wholly to his word, giving them leave to perish that needs will perish, and in the mean while staying ourselves by the promise of salvation which he has given us accordingly also as it is by his will that we should attain thereto any such knowledge.—Prayer of John Calvin