The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.

After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word of mouth concerning this treasure, sealing it with the Sacrament of my body and blood, so that you need never doubt. True, it seems little and insignificant that by the washing of water, the Word, and the Sacrament this should all be effected. But don't let your eyes deceive you.

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.