Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

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.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.