All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.

Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God Himself, unto the infinite Lord, the eternal first being of all the world; thy life hath been nothing but enmity to this God: thou hast as directly opposed, and striven against, and resisted Him, as ever man did oppose, and resist, and strive with another man, and this thou hast done in the whole course of thy life: certainly there is more in this to humble a man than anything that can be spoken to shew him the evil of sin.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.