God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.

Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.