Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.