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"The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act."
"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."
"Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself."
"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."
"All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience."
"My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely."
"Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection."
"God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ."
"We are nowhere forbidden to laugh."
"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 is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence."
"The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself."
"Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever."
"Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors."
"To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace."
"Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us."
"The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves."
"It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God."
"A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers."
"Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority."