When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."

God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"

Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.