No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!

It has served us well, this myth of Christ.

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.

As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy let us enjoy it.

For an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall!

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.

Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.