The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.