We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment
You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.
All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.
When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.
Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.
Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20).
The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.
There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.
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.
Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.
The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves.
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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