Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.

what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.