It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses,.....in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.

We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.

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.

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

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

We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.

Men are idol factories.