To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

Free will is an empty term.

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.