Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

The Devil deserves zero tolerance.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

Religion is caught, not taught.

If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.