God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

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

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.

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

But then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.