Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

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.

People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

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.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.