Calvin Quote

Ambition is fine if properly constrained. Calvin understood this fact and commented on it. Although he didn't call it "ambition" there is no other name for it. I know some Christians who could learn much from reading this quote:

No single mortal can be sufficient to do everything however many and various may be the endowments wherein he excels. Let then God’s servants learn to measure carefully their powers, lest they should wear out by ambitiously embracing too many occupations. For this propensity to engage in too many things is a very common malady and numbers are so carried along by it as not to be easily restrained. Calvin on Exodus 18:15ff