Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

From you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

It is easy enough to do good once or twice, but to keep on doing good without getting disgusted with the ingratitude of those whom we have benefited, that is not so easy.

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God’s grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

Philosophy is the Devil’s Whore.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, “He who is not with me is against me.” He does not say “He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

Be thou comforted,little dog;thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.

I’ve got so much work to do today, I’d better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

No great saint lived without errors.

Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Pray, and let God worry.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.

I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

A unjust law, is no law at all.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer.

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.