The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!

If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.

None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.

Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?