Every evening brings us nearer God.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

It is the most ungodly and dangerous business to abandon the certain and revealed will of God in order to search in to the hidden mysteries of God.

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.