In our good works nothing is our own.

The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.

We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment

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

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

There are babies a span long in hell.

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions