God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.

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

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.