Martin Chemnitz

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.