It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.