In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.
The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.
There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.
Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.
The whole gospel is contained in Christ.
No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot.
All truth is God's truth.
The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory
Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.
The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.
... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.
There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.
There are babies a span long in hell.
When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.
Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.
God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.
Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.
God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.
In our good works nothing is our own.
To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
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