People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.