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.

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

When we know God to be our Father, should we not desire that he be known as such by all? And if we do not have this passion, that all creatures do him homage, is it not a sign that his glory means little to us?