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

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.