"Ignorance is the mother of superstition."

"It is a horrible decree, I confess, but no one can deny that God foreknew what the end of man was to be before he created him, and that he foreknew it because he had so ordained it."

"It would be indeed better to grant license to thieves and sorcerers and adulterers, than to suffer the blasphemies which the ungodly utter against God, to prevail without any punishment and without an…"

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

"It is by no means necessary that the righteous should be distinguished from the wicked by external signs."