If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

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.

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.