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.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.