Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.