Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge

Let each of us hear this letter with the conviction that it is addressed especially to him; let him say in his heart, All this is for me.

— Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge

His walk and conversation will then be very different from his former course of life, when he willingly served sin and Satan, indulged his evil desires, and walked after the course of this world.

— Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge

They are separated from the mass, set apart that they may be a peculiar people to the Lord.

— Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge

We are chosen “according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,-through sanctification of the Spirit;” and this sanctification, it is a comfort to know, is a sanctification we may safely confide in; because it is widely different from the self-sanctification, the fleshly holiness, or wilful separation, to which “he that runneth,” and “he that willeth,” addicts himself, in order that the idol self may be magnified and worshipped.

— Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge

The world and the devil fight against us believers, because we will not wear their mask of hypocrisy, under which gross wickedness may be committed.

— Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge

We reject the pharisaical sanctity, which is but a covering of shame, under which sin has free play.

— Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge

Every thing that is around us strives to draw us away from the true faith.

— Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge

This, then, is the obedience of faith, whereunto the Holy Ghost sanctifies us, that we should not give ear to the doctrine taught by the world, which is a doctrine of self-righteousness, and that we should keep ourselves altogether “unspotted from the world,” in our daily walk and conversation, and that we join not with the world in any thing that denies God and Christ, be it what it may.

— Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge