One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek es….

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notw….

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church u….

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, ….

Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religio….

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God..

A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and….

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism..

There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when….

We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State,….

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism..

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influenc….

The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are ….

The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is….

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the wor….

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises hig….

Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity..

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will spe….

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You mu….

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith..