We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that there is nothing which is able to pacify Him but this inestimable price, even the death and the blood of the Son of God, one drop of which is more precious than the whole world.

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.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.