Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.

Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

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.