Do not fight against these harmful spells. For you do not know what God wants with them. You do not know the greater divine plan behind it all.

I'd rather be ruled by a competent Turk than an incompetent Christian.

Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!

The human being, corrupted to the root, can neither desire nor perform anything but evil.

Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.

Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.

The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, " If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him."

Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst."

We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.