In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.

In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.

It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.

Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.