John Calvin on God's mercy

"The divine mercy is a better foundation of trust than any life fashioned out to ourselves, and than all other supports taken together. On this account the Lord's people, however severely they may suffer from poverty, or the violence of human wrongs, or the languor of desire, or hunger or thirst, or the many troubles and anxieties of life, may be happy notwithstanding; for it is well with them, in the best sense of the term, when God is their friend. Unbelievers, on the other hand, must be miserable, even when all the world smile upon them; for God is their enemy, and curse necessarily attaches to their lot." John Calvin