While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

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