The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." "Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances, the regular and appropriate prayer (the Lord's Prayer) is said first, as the foundation of further desires.

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!

He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.