“For there is hardly a page of Scripture on which it is not clearly written that God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble [James 4:6]” (Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 565).

“But the man who cannot speak both eloquently and wisely should speak wisely without eloquence, rather than eloquently without wisdom” (Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 596).

“Purity of life has reference to the love of God and one’s neighbor; soundness of doctrine to the knowledge of God and one’s neighbor. Every man, moreover, has hope in his own conscience, so far as he perceives that he has attained to the love and knowledge of God and his neighbor” (Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 561).

“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).