Seeds were planted and evidently sown while the bishops slept (Mt 13:25).

Wilberforce wrote some years later that it was as if he'd been all those years in a dream from which at last now he had been awakened.

For refusing to swear his allegiance to Hitler, Barth would be kicked out of Germany in 1934, and he would become the principal author of the Barmen Declaration, in which the Confessing Church trumpeted its rejection of the Nazis' attempts to bring their philosophy into the German church.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about . . .

I read a story about an old gentlemen who was known for his godly life. Someone asked him one day, "What do you do when you are tempted, old man?" He replied, "I just look up to Heaven and say, 'Lord, your property is in danger.'

There is no single, all-determinative divine will that coercively steers all things, and hence there is here no supposition that evil agents and events have a secret divine motive behind them. Hence too, one need not agonize over what ultimately good, transcendent divine purpose might be served by any particular evil event.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

We took authority in the spirit world and refused to give Satan any room to operate. This is our responsibility as Christian parents.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'