No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.

To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

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.

God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.