While we contemplate in all creatures, as in a mirror, those immense riches of His wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not meerly run them over cursorily, and, so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length, turn them over in our mind seriously and faithfully and recollect them repeatedly.

The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?

I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.