We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
There is no inconsistency when God raises up those who have fallen prostrate.
For by a kind of mutual bond the Lord has joined together the certainty of his Word and of his Spirit so that the perfect religion of the Word may abide in our minds when the Spirit, who causes us to contemplate God’s face, shines.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; instead, I learned I could fly.
Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God’s grace, not by our worth.
Unless God’s Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.