While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
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.
Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.