Originál: (en) How much more, then, is it necessary to see to it that all governors of commonwealths, when they realize that all their power is from God alone and that He has appointed them shepherds of his people, govern and guard those subject to them according to his judgment, and take care lest any one of those entrusted to them by God, their Maker, Father and Lord, should weaken in faith or abuse his laws or in any manner take away his honor from Him.
Zdroj: [Pauck, Wilhelm, Melanchton and Bucer, https://books.google.cz/books?id=HnOnD3_6UIgC&dq, Westminster John Knox Press, Philadelphia, 1969, 406, 189, 0664241646, angličtina]
„Základní chyba otců: očekávají od svých dětí, že jim budou dělat čest.“
„Spravedlnost je nepřekračovati zákon obce, v níž je někdo občanem.“
„Žádný problém se nerozřeší, budeme-li nečinně čekat, že se o něj bude starat jen Bůh sám.“
Zdroj: cit. dle Na každý den 1986. Kalich Praha 1985, s. 88
Originál: (en) Christ is so hid in God from the natural apprehensions of the flesh, that he cannot by any man be savingly known, unless God the Father reveals him to them.
Zdroj: BUNYAN, John; SCOTT, Thomas. The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. S. 196.
Kapitola IV
Originál: (en) You will find those who rail at the very being of a God, though in their consciences they know there is a God, yet with their lips will blasphemously deny his existence. These men say there is no God, because they wish there were none.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, The First and Great Commandment: A Sermon (No. 162), delivered on Sabbath Morning, November 8, 1857, http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/0162.htm, 6.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
