“A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.”

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.

When the devil is called god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldiness.

On my worst days, I give the devil hell. On my best day, I hold a light for God to dwell.

Blue devils sing haunting melodies that echo within the chambers of my heart-this is how heartbreak lingers.

You can’t call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Speak of the Devil and he shall appear.

When reason fails, the devil helps!