So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.

When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.