So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

Woman is the root of all evil.

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.