First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings; but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.

There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.