We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.