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

We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)