Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.

Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.