To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: 'Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!' And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become.

If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.

Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.