I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

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

That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.