Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

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

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude.