Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.

God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.

A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.