“God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.”

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.

It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.

Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

And when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.

It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home

He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It’s big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away… Literally.

[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.