We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.