Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life.

For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)