The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.