The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

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.

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.

The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.