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.

Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.