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.

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.