"This is not laid down on human authority; it is God who speaks and prescribes a perpetual rule for his Church."

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

"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."

"God has a secret counsel, by which he chooses whom he will, and rejects whom he will."

"Our salvation is assured, not by our own works, but by the election of God."