For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

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

Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.