Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.

The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.