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

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

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

We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

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