Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.

God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.