A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.

Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart' (Deut 6.5) that therefore you can love with all your heart? What do arguments of this kind prove, but the 'free-will' does not need the grace of God, but can do all things by its own power....But it does not follow from this that man is converted by his own power, nor do the words say so; they simply say: "if thou wilt turn,telling man what he should do. When he knows it, and sees that he cannot do it, he will ask whence he may find ability to do it..." 164

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.