People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.
Whatever you love most, that is your god.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.
A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.
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.
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.
Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.
I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.
A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.
It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favour that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace.
This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope.
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.
The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.
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