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

For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day.

Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.