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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

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

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