The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.
An angel is a spiritual being, created by god without a body, for the service of Christendom.
Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.
A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art – to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God’s wrath.
Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy, to him be power and authority for ever and ever.
We should die relying on grace alone.
Our Lord God doesn’t do great things except by violence, as they say.
The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.
I would rather obey than work miracles.
If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.