Connaître Dieu comme le Maître et le dispensateur de tous les biens, qui nous invite à les lui demander, et ne pas aller à lui et lui demander, ce serait aussi peu profitable que de négliger un trésor, enterré et caché dans la terre, après qu'on le lui a indiqué.
Jean Calvin, Institutes, p. 850.
To know God as the Master and Bestower of all good things, who invites us to request them of Him, and still not go to Him and ask of Him – this would be of as little profit as for a man to neglect a treasure, buried and hidden in the earth, after it had been pointed out to him.
John Calvin, Institutes, p. 850.