If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.
Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.
When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.
We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.
What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?
Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.
If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.
Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.
A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.
Christian life consists of faith and charity.
The hair is the richest ornament of women.
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.
All of a Christian’s life is one of repentance.
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?