The hair is the richest ornament of women.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.

Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.