I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed but fine up against a wall.

In my country of South Africa we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings children of the same God by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

Communism has decided against God against Christ against the Bible and against all religion.

If God listened to the prayers of men all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair against our will comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

I cannot and will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand I can do no other so help me God. Amen.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.