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

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

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

Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and kindly receives them, and dedicates them to the Father by a solemn act of blessing.

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

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