An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

Better to be cast out of the Church than to deny Christ.

I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.

It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.

I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

No other creature on the face of this planet inflicts more suffering than humans.

You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.

I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.