We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'