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

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?