Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.

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

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

Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.