It is rumored that the plague has broken out here, but the report is empty and false; by the favor of Christ everything is safe and quiet.

since God is always to be called on, therefore one must always be in trouble.

Though my enemies and all the world oppress me, persecute me, and drive me out, I still have a Lord who is, and wants to be, my Lord because God has promised this to me.

God is both willing and able to help.

God is both willing and able to help. He gives health, happiness, and salvation. You can depend on this.

He is a God to us and dispenses everything bountifully also when everything is most hopeless.

If ever it seems good to God that the Turk should fall upon Germany, those mounds piled up at great expense and toil will not protect us, and in that case I would certainly not like to stay in this town; I would rather crawl out. But when we bend our knees and cry out to our Creator, He will be able to surround us with walls of fire, as is testified in Ps. 125:2: "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people, from this time forth and for-evermore.

Experience teaches how amazingly the ungodly and wicked tremble in lightning, pestilence, or other exigency of death, when the righteous, on the other hand, endure everything unafraid and calm.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.