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

"God's singular decree is the cause of Adam's fall, and through this fall, the damnation of his posterity."

"All events are governed by the secret counsel of God."

"We must live as if we were always in the presence of God."

"Whoever shall maintain that wrong is done to heretics and blasphemers in punishing them makes himself an accomplice in their crime."