Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

What has Ingeld to do with Christ?

If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.

Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.