Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

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

The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.