“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”

“Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and p...”

“We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”

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

“Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.”

“A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the bray...”

“You should never wish for wishful thinking.”

“What you desire is what you want, what you have is what Allah wants.”

“Most people say if you tell a wish it won't come true. But I don't think wishes work like that. I don't believe there's some bad-tempered wish-fairy with a clipboard, checking off whether or not yo...”

“I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.”

“Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.”

“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.”

“To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.”

“Ill rid the world of each one of you, he whispered. Every single one”

“Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.”