However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

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

It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation. ... No one can be justified by the law; justification is through faith alone.