The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.

However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.