In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.

Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

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

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.