If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving.

Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.