Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.
The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.
Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.
God's mark is on everything that obeys Him.
Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.
Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.
Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say
You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before.
No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!
God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.
The devil won't stay where there is music.
Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.
God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.
When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.
I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die.
They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
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