Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

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

Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

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