You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.