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.

Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.