The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.