“Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.” — John Calvin

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.