 Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God. Topics: Love |
| For where love is wanting, the beauty of all virtue is mere tinsel, is empty sound, is not worth a straw, nay more, is offensive and disgusting. Topics: Love |
| God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. Topics: Mercy, Prayer, Freedom |
| We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too. Topics: Miracles, Satan |
| Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer. Topics: Persecution, Prayer |
| Let's get rid of the inhuman philosophy which only allows necessities. Not only does it wrongly deprive us of legitimate enjoyment of God's generosity, but it cannot be effected without depriving man of all his senses, reducing him to a block. Topics: Philosophy |
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| There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. Topics: Praise |
| The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature. Topics: Prayer |
| Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all. Topics: Prayer |
| Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them. Topics: Prayer, Intercession |
| We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need. Topics: Prayer, Blessings |
| 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. Topics: Preaching, Church |
