Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.