Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow.

Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.