"The whole world is a theater of God's glory."

"Our hearts are so prone to idolatry that we cannot but be continually forging new gods for ourselves."

"God's decree is the cause of all things, so that nothing happens but by his will and appointment."

"We call predestination God's eternal decree, by which he compacted with himself what he willed to become of each man. For all are not created in equal condition; rather, eternal life is foreordained f…"

"...those whom God passes over [praeterit], he condemns [reprobat]; and this he does for no other reason than that he wills to exclude them from the inheritance which he predestines [praedestinat] for …"