In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.