Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.