If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to all; for though Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world, and is offered through God’s benignity indiscriminately to all, yet all do not receive him.

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.