He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.
The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.
Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.
The church is the gathering of God’s children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.
Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church’s worship.
The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.
To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
The whole gospel is contained in Christ.
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.
How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.