Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.

If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".

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.

I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

I'll trust in God's unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.