For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

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

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

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.