It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses,.....in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.