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

Every evening brings us nearer God.

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.