The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it one thousand times. This confidence in God's grace and knowledge of it makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures; and this is the work of the Holy Ghost in faith.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.