They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

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

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

The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

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

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.