For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than that of all other nations. At the same time it must be remarked, that this grace of renewal is effaced in many who have afterwards profaned it

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

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

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.