Here I stand; I can do no other.
Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful.
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?
I have got so much to do today that I need to spend another hour on my knees praying.
We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.
