I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.