We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.

Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)