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

"The decree is dreadful, I confess. Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree."

"The grace of God is the only foundation of our salvation."

"For the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that it can neither conceive, desire, nor design anything but what is vicious, perverted, impure, and iniquitous."

"The mind of man is a perpetual forge of idols."