If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.