Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.