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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

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 manner parents ought to handle their children.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God

When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.