Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.