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.

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

Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed.

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.

It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.

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.

All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.