What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!