Calvin on Thinking about Predestination

For those with whom I have participated in discussions about predestination recently (this would include Sunday School, with the Pelagian Controversy, and Youth Group, discussing Calvinism), I thought the following quote might be a helpful read. Take some time to read over it and digest it.

When they inquire into predestination, they are penetrating the sacred precincts of divine wisdom. If anyone with carefree assurance breaks into this place, he will not succeed in satisfying his curiosity and he will enter a labyrinth from which he can find no exit. For it is not right for man unrestrainedly to search out things that the Lord has willed to be hidden in Himself; nor is it right for him to investigate from eternity that sublime wisdom, which God would have us revere but not understand, in order that through this also He should fill us with wonder. He has set forth by His Word the secrets of His will that He has decided to reveal to us. These He decided to reveal in so far as He foresaw that they would concern and benefit us. -John Calvin