God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.

I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?

Animals are footprints of God.