Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.