"We exhort and command you, brethren, to strive with all your might to drive out the Turks from the confines of the Christians, and to aid the Christians, who are now subjected to their yoke."

"Consider that the Holy Spirit has inspired you, and that the Lord has chosen you, that you may show to the world what true valor is, and what a glorious victory may be obtained by those who fight for …"

"Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the kingdom of heaven."

"Therefore, I pray and exhort, nay not I, but the Lord prays and exhorts you, as heralds of Christ, to urge men of all ranks, knights and foot-soldiers, rich and poor, to hasten to exterminate this vil…"

"You should not be detained by any love of your ancestral soil, for this land which you inhabit is barren and stony."