Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.

Eagles don't catch flies.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.