If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

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

Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.

When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.

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.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.