We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.

...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.