Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

There is nothing so deluded as feelings. Christians cannot live by feelings. Let me further tell you that many feelings are the work of Satan, for they are not right feelings. What right have you to set up your feelings against the Word of Christ?

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.