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.

What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.

Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

The devil doesn't stay where there is music.

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.