I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.
Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.
Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.
Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.
God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.
We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went, they made a triumphant witness for Christ. Whether on the village streets or in the city jails, they daringly proclaimed the good news of the gospel.
The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him.
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.
The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more, that we let God alone work in us and that we do nothing of our own with all our powers.
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Reason is the enemy of faith.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.
We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.
The cross alone is our theology.
If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.