The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

Despair makes priests and friars.

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.

I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!

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!

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.