"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer."

"GOD OFTEN ACTS LIKE A MADMAN ... I look upon God no better than a scoundrel."

"The greatest blessing of all is to have a wife who is pious, God-fearing, and domestic."

"The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees."

"My conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen."