To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

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.

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.