Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.

To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

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.