Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.