"The world is like a drunken peasant. If you help him to mount on one side of his horse, he tumbles off on the other."

"The soul can do without anything except the Word of God, without which there is no help for it at all."

"Tomorrow I have to lecture on the drunkenness of Noah [Gen. 9:20-27], so I should drink enough this evening to be able to talk about that wickedness as one who knows by experience."

"If we do [tolerate their conduct], we become sharers in their lies, cursing and blasphemy. Thus we cannot extinguish the unquenchable fire of divine wrath, of which the prophets speak, nor can we conv…"

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."