To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.

But then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!

I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.