But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

The whole gospel is contained in Christ.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.