If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.

Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?

Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful to me than before. Then I will properly appreciate the sun, the moon, the stars, trees, apples, as I reflect that he is Lord over all things. ...God writes the Gospel, not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

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

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

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.