We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.

The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all

For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day.

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.