Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.

A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.

If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.

I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.