from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.