We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

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

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there is nothing strange in His shedding some rays of grace on the reprobate, and afterwards allowing these to be extinguished.

All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day.