Quotes about Author

If the end of human law is the promotion of the common good among men, the divine law has for its purpose nothing less than our friendship with God.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Every project has been found to be no better than committing the lamb to the custody of the wolf, except that one which is called a balance of power.

There is no medium between the two things: the earth must either be worthless in our estimation, or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.

Desire is bridled when we acknowledge that all things given to us are given in order that we might know their author. This leads us to gratitude for His kindness toward us.

For, until men feel that they owe everything to God, that they are cherished by his paternal care, and that he is the author of all their blessings, so that nought is to be looked for away from him, they will never submit to him in voluntary obedience; nay, unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.

Our faith in doctrine is not established until we have a perfect conviction that God is its author.

The frequent mention of the glory of God ought not to be regarded as superfluous, for what is infinite cannot be too strongly expressed.

We both felt that the chief virtue of an interpreter consists in clarity combined with brevity.

Therefore, it is blasphemous to give the title Son to anyone but Christ.

The Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God;