Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.