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

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.