To have peace and love in a marriage is a gift that is next to the knowledge of the gospel.
A gospel that doesn’t deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.
The devil does not stay where music is.
Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.
Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.
People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.
Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.
The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.
No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.
In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!
My conscience is captive to the Word of God.
He that will maintain that man’s free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God’s law and to show the nature of sin.
God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.
I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.
The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.