To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

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

It is not our work, but God's gift, that we now hate ourselves and our sinful lusts and follow after love.

I felt that I had been born anew and that the gates of heaven had been opened. The whole of Scripture gained a new meaning. And from that point on the phrase, 'the justice of God' no longer filled me with hatred, but rather became unspeakable sweet by virtue of a great love.

We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.

The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.

Christ is no Moses, no law-giver, no tyrant, but the Mediator for sins, the Giver of grace and life.

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

Before you can cry to God and seek him God must come to you and must have found you