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

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!

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.

Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God

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

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.

But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.

Hard WindSister with iron hoovesTogether we shall travel steppesthat no man nor mount has seenCourage will be my saddleAnd your bridle shall be my faith in you …

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either.

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

I don't have any leeches on my speed dial." — Jacob Black

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.