You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.