Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.