It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful to me than before. Then I will properly appreciate the sun, the moon, the stars, trees, apples, as I reflect that he is Lord over all things. ...God writes the Gospel, not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.