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

Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow. Such a procedure must also be followed in this instance. Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them, as Moses did... If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.