All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear; how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.

I'll trust in God's unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

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

May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.

It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity