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

The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.

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.

My brother, if it’s not in the Bible, He’s not in it!! If it’s not in the Word of God, He is not in it.

American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.

Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added ’em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

And here’s what I said, if its in the word we accept it but if you dream it and your vision is not in the bible then you got to dismiss it because its not based upon the word.

Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible.

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.