Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
If only the good were a little less heavy-footed
There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.
To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question.
He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.
