If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.

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

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.