Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.