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'For where thy treasure is, there thy heart is also.' But how are we thy treasure if we are nothing? 'All the nations are as nothing before thee, they will be accounted by thee as nothing.' So indeed, before thee, not within thee: so in the judgment of thy truth, but not so in the intention of thy faithfulness. So, indeed, thou 'callest those things, which are not, as though they were.' And they are not, therefore, because it is the things that are not that thou callest, and they are because thou callest them.

—John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion III.ii.27, quoting Bernard of Clairvaux, In dedicatione ecclesiae, sermon v.