Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.
It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the world.
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory.
The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man’s own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God’s grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.
Man’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.
The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.
God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.
Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.