When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.

Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

The devil is God's ape!

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.