Johann Martin Boltzius

“Because the Indians are planning to start war now, the common people want all of them destroyed so that they can live…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“All wooden parts are being prepared according to the design of this surveyor and engineer, and [7th-GGF Georg] Kogler prefers following his…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“At the order of the Lord Trustees a parliament is again to be held in Savannah on the 2nd of March, for…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“As it should be, the Lord's day is always an important and blessed day. We spend it peacefully with singing, praying and…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“Lochner is not a good man and will not be brought to repentance whether by the word of the Lord or physical…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“We gladly conform to the people's needs in all things if it can be done in conformity with the word of God…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“I hope that our descendants, insofar as they fear God, will find much material for the recognition of the wonderful and blessed…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“I well believe, dear Mother, that it is somewhat painful for you that I have travelled so far away from you and…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“The severe frost last February destroyed many branches as well as young trees that had already been full of sap as a…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“I translated the laws which pertain to our people into German and plan to read them aloud in our next community meeting.…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“Cursing is common with most people of this country. From Savannah Town, a town situated up near the Indians, such things are…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“Most members of our community are genuinely dear souls who love the Lord Jesus with their whole heart and honor in pious…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“Some dislike our insisting on the word of the Lord and true fear of Him; and they say they do not wish…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“Everybody living at the orphanage . . . are fully convinced of the selection of men to salvation ex absoluto decreto. .…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“Thus they did not do, as many unfortunately do nowadays in Christendom. When the ancient miracles of God are related, they say,…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“God is only mocked at most weddings. For the word of God, singing, and praying are almost empty ceremonies, as I could…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“The Englishman who picked up the letter to be delivered to Frederica appeared amiable and grateful for the good that he had…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“In Abercorn things are very profane, they do not celebrate Sundays and holy days. . . . It is a shame that…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“Our Salzburgers did not leave their home for the sake of good living; under the merciful guidance of our miraculous God they…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“Do not think that Christianity is something slavish and irksome, and conversely that the consummation of youthful desires is something upon which…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“During the conversation she [7th-GGM, Anna Maria Hoepflinger Floerl] also talked about the guidance with which God had provided her when they…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“Recalcitrance and malice we find in no Salzburger; the most useless and worst are those who have come to them along the…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“Oh, may the Lord never let us, nor our descendants, forget what spiritual and material benefits we have received in this wilderness…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“[Mrs. Rieser] diligently instills into her children the advantages they have here over their miserable fatherland in Salzburg. They knew, saw, and…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“Brief worldly pleasure is followed by pain and disgust. If only people would believe it rather than experience it.”

— Johann Martin Boltzius