Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.

Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.