“Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.”

We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.

Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.

Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

The whole fruit is already present in the seed.

I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!

Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

See how these Christians love one another.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.

It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.