Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.

God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.