All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.