I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.

Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.

To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.