Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

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.

When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

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

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.