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.

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.