No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.

We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.