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

Even though they grow weary and wear themselves out with child- bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. -Martin Luther.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.