So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.

... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.