The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

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

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.