“I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.”

“The wicked make all God's good works serve evil purposes but the person of good will, to the contrary, makes the evil doings of the wicked serve good purposes.”

“I do not understand what I do....It is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me...For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do - this I keep on doing...I find this law at work: when I want to do good, evil is right there with me...I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin...I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.”

“God has plans for you and His plans are for good because God Himself is good. He can neither think nor do evil.”

“Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.”

“Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.”