"God's providence extends to all things, even to the least of them."

"God has his reasons for electing some and reprobating others, though these reasons are hidden from us."

"God, by a just and irreprehensible, but incomprehensible judgment, has predestinated some to eternal life, and others to eternal death."

"For we do not say that man is dragged unwillingly into sinning, but that because his will is corrupt he is held captive under the yoke of sin and therefore of necessity wills in an evil way."

"Let us also learn that nothing is less consistent than to punish heavily the crimes whereby mortals are injured, whilst we connive at the impious errors or sacrilegious modes of worship whereby the ma…"