The hair is the richest ornament of women.
A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
God can be found only in suffering and the cross.
You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.
The devil is God's ape!
When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness.
And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.
True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.
We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.
Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'
It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.
There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment
Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.
If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.
Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.
It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.
To progress is always to begin always to begin again
At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.
Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?
Reason is the enemy of faith.
The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.
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