If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

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.

It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.

The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.