The Christian church [in its true identity] does not persecute; any more than a lily scratches the thorns, or a lamb pursues and tears the wolves, or a turtledove hunts the hawks and eagles, or a chaste and modest virgin fights and scratches like whores and harlots.

But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

Sometimes the truth is stupid.

It is but little of the world yet that hath heard the lost estate of mankind and of a Savior, Christ Jesus; and as yet the fullness of the gentiles has not come, and probably shall not until the downfall of the Papacy.