The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

O my God, how does it happen in this poor world that you are so great and yet nobody finds you, that you call so loudly and yet nobody hears you, that you are so near and yet nobody feels you, that you give yourself to everybody and yet nobody knows your name? Men flee from you and say they cannot find you; they turn their backs and say they cannot see you; they stop their ears and say they cannot hear you.

No one can truly know Christ unless they follow him in life.