The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious