When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not 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)

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.