The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
How soon not now, becomes never.
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.
So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.
A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Teaching is of more importance than urging.
Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.
Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.
Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
Everything done in the world is done by hope.
Christian life consists of faith and charity.
Christians are rare people on earth.
Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.
The Devil beget darkness; darkness beget ignorance; ignorance beget error and his brethren; error beget free-will and presumption; free-will beget works; works beget forgetfulness of God; forgetfulness beget transgression; transgression beget superstition; superstition beget satisfaction; satisfaction beget the mass-offering; the mass-offering beget the priest; the priest beget unbelief; unbelief beget hypocrisy; hypocrisy beget traffic in offerings for gain; traffic in offerings for gain beget Purgatory; Purgatory beget the annual solemn vigils; the annual vigils beget church-livings; church-livings beget avarice; avarice beget swelling superfluity; swelling superfluity beget fulness; fulness beget rage; rage beget license; license beget empire and domination; domination beget pomp; pomp beget ambition; ambition beget simony; simony beget the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.
Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!
I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of Gods word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now. Nobody is to blame for this except the pope, the bishops, and the prelates, who are all charged with training young people. The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that? I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
Peter Lynch
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
General Douglas MacArthur
By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
You are remembered for the rules you break.
There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
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