I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

No great saint lived without errors.

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow.

After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.

A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.