The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it one thousand times. This confidence in God's grace and knowledge of it makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures; and this is the work of the Holy Ghost in faith.

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.

If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

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.

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.