Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

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.