If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.