Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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 Human heart is an idol factory.
We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.
Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.
Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.
That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.
It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
The word “hope” I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us – as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.