Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another.

When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.