To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

I know whom I have believed.

Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.