Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear; how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.