Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

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

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.

Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

While we contemplate in all creatures, as in a mirror, those immense riches of His wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not meerly run them over cursorily, and, so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length, turn them over in our mind seriously and faithfully and recollect them repeatedly.