In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.

I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.