Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.