The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.

We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.