“Poor is all the useful knowledge which is gathered from the books of the heathen when compared with the knowledge of the Holy Scripture” (Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 555).

“The man who fears God seeks diligently in Holy Scripture for a knowledge of His will” (Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 556).

“What then is purity of speech, except the preserving of the custom of language established by the authority of former speakers?” (Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 541).

“Accordingly the Holy Spirit has, with admirable wisdom and care for our welfare, so arranged the Holy Scriptures as by the plainer passages to satisfy our hunger, and by the more obscure to stimulate our appetites” (Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 537).

“The man who has accustomed himself to caution in his communications will not fall into many absurdities, into which talkative and prating persons fall into from time to time, but, by constant practice, will acquire for himself expertness in making proper and suitable replies; as, on the other hand, it must necessarily happen, that silly talkers expose themselves to derision whenever they are interrogated as to anything; and in this they pay the just punishment of their silly talkativeness” (John Calvin, Commentary on the Epistle to the Colossians, 226).

“For if we love by faith that which as yet we see not, how much more shall we love it when we begin to see! (Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 533)

“One of the greatest evidences of human sin and depravity is the widespread ignorance of and indifference toward the love of God” (J.C. Wenger, Introduction to Theology, 58).

“Now faith will totter if the authority of Scripture begin to shake. And then, if faith totter, love itself will grow cold. For if a man has fallen from faith, he must necessarily also fall from love; for he cannot love what he does not believe to exist” (Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 533).

“It is because Jesus is a perfect image of the Father that He was able to tell His disciples: “For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” This awareness of the omnipresence of God and of Jesus through the Holy Spirit gives to Christians a feeling of security and of their being in the immediate care of God. They are “never alone.” But this truth cannot be experienced by intellectual apprehension alone: it requires much feeding on the Word of God, meditation, and secret prayer” (J.C. Wenger, Introduction to Theology, 51).

“All things are to be loved in reference to God” (Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 530).