“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green ...” — Martin Luther Quote

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

“This life is not godliness but the process of becoming godly, not health but getting well, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not now what we shall be, but we are on the way. The process is not yet finished, but it is actively going on. This is not the goal, but it is the right road. At present, everything does not gleam and sparkle, but everything is being cleansed.”

“Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.”

“Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.”

“In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.”