The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

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

I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them.

Unthankfulness is theft.

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.