Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!