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.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

But then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!