We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.

Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.

Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.

It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

While we contemplate in all creatures, as in a mirror, those immense riches of His wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not meerly run them over cursorily, and, so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length, turn them over in our mind seriously and faithfully and recollect them repeatedly.