The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.