There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.
The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.
... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.
As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there is nothing strange in His shedding some rays of grace on the reprobate, and afterwards allowing these to be extinguished.