“When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine does but confirm him in his faith.”

“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.”

“…the earth yields no increase without the dew of heaven”

“Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.”

“Faith is decisively determined by the object of faith, namely, God and His Word. This does not ... imply that Scripture ... derives its authority from the believer's faith: this idea is already rendered untenable by the very nature of faith, which rests on and trusts in the Word of God.”

“A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason”

“He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.”