Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

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.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Love is not only pure joy, and delight, but also great and deep heaviness of heart and sorrow. But love too is full of joy and sweetness even in bitter sorrow, because it regards the misery and injury of others as its own. So also Christ was glowing with burning love in His last and greatest agony. According to St. Hilary, it was Christ's greatest joy that He endured the greatest woe. Thus God "giveth strength and power unto His people" (Ps. 68:15). While they experience the greatest sorrow, their hearts overflow with joy.

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