Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.

There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.

All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.

We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction