I would rather obey than work miracles.
For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.
The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.
We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.
A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.
All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.
What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.
He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.
Faith is under the left nipple.
No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.
The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.
Thoughts are not subject to duty.
You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before.
The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.
This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.