Note 505 0 Introduction
My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior / Mary, the mother of Jesus
You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God / Apostle Peter
If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing / Apostle Paul
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son / John the Evangelist
I am the wheat of God and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ / Ignatius of Antioch
What the soul is in the body, that are Christians in the world / unknown author
Fourscore and six years have I served him, and he has never done me injury / Polycarp of Smyrna
You can kill us, but you can't hurt us / Justin Martyr
The prison was made a palace for me / Vibia Perpetua
He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the church for his mother / Cyprian of Carthage
In hoc signo vinces (in this sign conquer) / Constantine
For he was made man that we might be made God / Athanasius
You who dress your walls, and let your fellow creatures go bare, what will you answer to the judge? / Basil the Great
They who belong to Christ destroy the property of Christ more than enemies / John Chrysostom
Our hearts are restless, until they can find rest in you / Augustine of Hippo
Always have some work on hand, that the devil may find you busy / Jerome Heironymus
I think that ill fortune is of greater advantage to men than good fortune / Boethius
Let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ / Benedict of Nursia
Whosoever calls himself, or desires to be called, universal priest, is in his elation the precursor of antichrist / Gregory the Great
In him are two natural wills and two natural operations / Sixth Ecumenical Council
I believe in God the Father Almighty / Pirmin
Grant me to come at length to yourself, the fount of all wisdom / Venerable Bede
All glory, laud, and honor, to thee, Redeemer, King / Theodulf of Orleans
We did not know where we were, on heaven or on earth / Russian ambassadors
You exist so truly, Lord my God, that you cannot even be thought not to exist / Anselm
God wills it! / Franks at Clermont
The Christian glories in the death of the pagan, because Christ is glorified / Bernard of Clairvaux
All praise be yours, my Lord, through all that you have made / Francis of Assisi
I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw / Thomas Aquinas
It is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff / Boniface VIII
All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well / Julian of Norwich
To be ignorant of the Scripture is the same thing as to be ignorant of Christ / John Wycliffe
Truth conquers all things / Jan Hus
Of two evils the lesser is always to be chosen / Thomas a Kempis
The truth might fare better at a lower temperature / Philipp Melanchthon
He has attacked the pope in his crown and the monks in their bellies / Disiderius Erasmus
I will cause a boy that drives the plough to know more of Scripture than you do / William Tyndale
Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen / Martin Luther
Do not put yourself at odds with the Word of God / Ulrich Zwingli
I came not hither to deny my Lord and Master / Anne Askew
I will cling to my Lord Christ as a burr on a coat / Katherina von Bora Luther
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us / John Calvin
We shall this day, by God's grace, light up such a candle in England, as I trust, will never be put out / Hugh Latimer
If their princes exceed their bounds, Madam, no doubt they may be resisted, even by power / John Knox
I will make them conform themselves, or I will harry them out of the land / James I of England, VI of Scotland
The greatest precaution should be used against involving the innocent in danger / Hugo Grotius
We shall be as a city upon a hill / John Winthrop
They are the terror of boys and the slaughterhouses of minds / Jan Amos Comenius
What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy him forever / Westminster Assembly
The heart has its reasons which reason does not know / Blaise Pascal
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow / Thomas Ken
His burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back / John Bunyan
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men / Richard Baxter
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God / Brother Lawrence (Nicholas Herman)
None else but the glory of God / Johann Sebastian Bach
Preach faith till you have it and then because you have it you will preach faith / Peter Bohler
I look upon all the world as my parish / John Wesley
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me / John Newton
Expect great things from God ; attempt great things for God / William Carey
The prospects are as bright as the promise of God / Adoniram Judson
Christ being an absolute explodes all the relativity whereby we humans live / Soren Kierkegaard
I would as soon attempt to enslave Gabriel or Michael as to enslave a man made in the image of God / Henry Highland Garnet
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine / Frances J. Crosby
There is not an inch in the entire area of our human life of which Christ who is sovereign of all does not cry, "Mine" / Abraham Kuyper
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely / John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There are no bad boys / Edward Flanagan
Those who joyfully take up my cross are themselves upborne by it / Sundar Singh
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose / Jim Elliot
Bless you, prison, for having been in my life! / Alexander Solzhenitsyn