The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.

To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.

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.

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.