An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.

There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment

Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.