“In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.”

The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

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.

There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.

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.

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you’ll be the 10th loser.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

Everything happens for a reason.

We’d achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.