“…the vinegar of the law, then the wine of the gospel…”

“4781. The sweetest Wine makes the sharpest Vinegar.”

“733. As the best Wine makes the sharpest Vinegar, so the deepest Love turns to the deadliest Hatred.”

“Knights of the Rosy Cross, they bore
Its weight within the heart, but wore
Without, devotion's sign in glistening ruby bright;
The gall and vinegar they drank alone,
But to the world at large would only own
The wine of faith, sparkling with rosy light.”

“If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.”

“The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.”

“The true Gospel has it that we are justified by faith alone, without the deeds of the Law.”

“We have to lead by an example of love. Law is something that is of help, but our guide is the Gospel.”

“[Footnote] Livy informs us that Hannibal split the huge Alpine rocks with vinegar to break a path for the elephants. Vinegar was a high explosive in 218 B. C., but not before or since.”

“When apprehensions abroad threatened the success of the Nazi regime for conquest, it was the duplicitous Ribbentrop, the salesman of deception, who was detailed to pour wine on the troubled waters of suspicion by preaching the gospel of limited and peaceful intentions.”