#Calvin on false teachers who claim #anxiety is a sin, Inst. 3.8.9 #Translating
"Today among Christians there are also new Stoics who consider it a fault not only to moan or cry but also to be sad or worried.
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"Today among Christians there are also new Stoics who consider it a fault not only to moan or cry but also to be sad or worried.
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But these paradoxes, of course, generally come from people who, having more practice with speculation than action, are not capable of doing anything but supplying us with such paradoxes.
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But we have nothing to do with that iron philosophy, which our master and Lord condemned not only in words but by his own example. After all, he lamented and cried over his own hardships and those of others and he instructed his disciples no differently.
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'The world will rejoice,' he says, 'but you will grieve and weep' (John 16:20). And to prevent anyone from turning it into a fault, he proclaimed with an explicit declaration that those who mourn are blessed (Matt. 5:4).
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It is no wonder, because if all tears are forbidden, how will we judge the Lord himself, from whose body dropped tears of blood (Luke 22:44)? If all fear is branded as unfaithfulness, what will we make of that terror with which, we read, he was severely dismayed?
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If all sadness is displeasing, how can it be agreeable that he confessed that his soul was sorrowful to the point of death? (Matt. 26:[37–]38)."
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