As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed.

The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.