No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.

Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.

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.

The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.