Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love.

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

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.