Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage.

All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.

All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.