Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and the Sacrament [i.e., communion/Eucharist/Lord's supper], and incorporated it in the Word and preaching. To our eyes Baptism [capitalized in original] appears to be nothing more than ordinary water, and the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood simple bread and wine, like other bread and wine, and the sermon, hot air from a man's mouth. But we must not trust what our eyes see.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.