When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.

The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

In our good works nothing is our own.

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.