Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.

If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.

All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.

To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him.

If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

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

It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work be done.

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

We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

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