“It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)”

“I was always exceedingly delighted with that saying of Chrysostom, "The foundation of our philosophy is humility"; and yet more pleased with that of Augustine: "As the orator, when asked, What is the first precept in eloquence? answered, Delivery: What is the second? Delivery: What is the third? Delivery: so if you ask me concerning the precepts of the Christian religion, I will answer, first, second, and third, Humility.”

“...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...”

“Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? ”

“A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.”

“They who strive to build up a firm faith in Scripture through disputation are doing things backwards.”

“Just as the light of the sun, while it invigorates a living and animated body, produces effluvia in a carcass; so it is certain that the sacraments where the Spirit of faith is not present, breathes mortiferous rather than vital odour.”