The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.

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.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.