Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

Let whatsoever will or can befall me, I will surely cleave by my sweet Savior Christ Jesus, for in Him am I baptized; I can neither do nor know anything but only what He has taught me.

We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.