Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

Despair makes priests and friars.

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?