"The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God and of himself."

"For we must not think that it is an arbitrary will in God that is the cause of election, but that he wills justly and without fault."

"Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind."

"We are not our own: let not our reason nor our will, therefore, sway our plans and deeds. We are not our own: let us therefore not set it as our goal to seek what is expedient for us according to the …"

"Whence it is sufficiently plain that they are not chosen for their own merit, but because God has gratuitously chosen them."