Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.