Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.