I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.
No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.
God can be found only in suffering and the cross.
Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.
Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.
How is God’s name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian.
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.
Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.
Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.
Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.
Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.
School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child’s spirit.
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
O America, how you’ve taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.