Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient. Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.