Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

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.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.