Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself.
By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.
Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.
Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.
When schools flourish, all flourishes.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.
When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.
To progress is always to begin always to begin again.
Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.
Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.
There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.
Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.