Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell.

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.

Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God.

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Don't be ashamed to learn from others.

God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

My cat's fully capable of speaking, but he says he's afraid of me turning it into a Kevin James vehicle.

One thing the Devil fears the most is the Church that obeys and goes not just sits and talks.

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.