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

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

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.

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.

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

Philosophy is the Devil's Whore

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

God does not need our good works, but our neighbor does.

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.

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

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

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

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

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

It is easy enough to do good once or twice, but to keep on doing good without getting disgusted with the ingratitude of those whom we have benefited, that is not so easy.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history

From you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.