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 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.

Sometimes the truth is stupid.

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.

While I deplored and denounced the incivilities of Quakerism in my day (such as the going naked in public by some at sundry times), my position regarding their religious views was, "They will answer to God, at their own peril, in the great day approaching [that is, the day of divine judgment]."

When He send, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.