I Can't Keep The Sparrows From Flying

The Best Way To Get Rid Of The Devil, If You Cannot Kill It With The Words Of Holy Scripture, Is To Rail At And Mock Him. Music, Too, Is Very Good; Music Is Hateful To Him, And Drives Him Far Away.

The God Of This World Is Riches, Pleasure And Pride.

Music Is A Discipline, And A Mistress Of Order And Good Manners, She Makes The People Milder And Gentler, More Moral And More Reasonable.

Let All Your Preaching Be In The Most Simple And Plainest Manner; Look Not To The Prince, But To The Plain, Simple, Gross, Unlearned People, Of Which Cloth The Prince Also Himself Is Made. If I, In My Preaching, Should Have Regard To Philip Melancthon And Other Learned Doctors, Then Should I Do But Little Good. I Preach In The Simplest Manner To The Unskillful, And That Giveth Content To All. Hebrew, Greek And Latin I Spare Until We Learned Ones Come Together.

A Theologian Should Be Thoroughly In Possession Of The Basis And Source Of Faith--that Is To Say, The Holy Scriptures. Armed With This Knowledge It Was That I Confounded And Silenced All My Adversaries; For They Seek Not To Fathom And Understand The Scriptures; They Run Them Over Negligently And Drowsily; They Speak, They Write, They Teach, According To The Suggestion Of Their Heedless Imaginations.