The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

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.

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

Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.