God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.