My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.
The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.
Music is the art of the prophets the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.
The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.
Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.
What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?
Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostol...
In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same ma...
God uses lust to impel men to marry ambition to office avarice to earning and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger for when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane v...
In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain But the Lord is risen today Christ hath brought us life again Wherefore let us all rejoice Singing loud with cheerful voice Hallelujah!
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.