Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.

Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and does not utterly despair of himself, and so is not humbled before God. Such a man plans out for himself a position, an occasion, a work, which shall bring him final salvation, but which will not.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.