The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.