Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

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