Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all