When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need

You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.