“What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?”

One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.

… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….

There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’

Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.

You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom

Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower.

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand – in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science.

An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.

It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.

He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

You don’t go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that’s benign conquest. It’s a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.

What I learned at that moment was the extraordinary clout that religious organizations can have to impose their theological views on others. And I found it exasperating and dangerous.

There was no, there was no in between. And when I got to New York all the other musics that’s in the world just came into my head whether it was the classics, jazz, I never knew what jazz was about all, had heard anything about jazz.

Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.

I suspect the debate over the ethics will be much more heated than the debate over steroids in baseball or any other sport, where the use is limited to a select group of freakish athletes.

The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

Can we become other than what we are?