There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

All truth is God's truth.