The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him.

A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

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

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.