Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.

The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.