Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.