Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

The Human heart is an idol factory.

Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

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

The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.