To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

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.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

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?

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.