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

On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

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.

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.

If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.

We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.