In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.

The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction