Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.

It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.