“Notwithstanding all the guidance of divine grace Israel did not know the time of her visitation. [-] The great majority of the people rejected the Messiah with the cry: 'His blood be upon us and upon our children”Michael von Faulhaber Matt. xxvii, 25 Sermon Four, p. 79 Sermon Four
“…among no people of the pre-Christian era do we find so great a number of intellectually prominent men who, by their words and by their whole personality, have devoted themselves to the religious guidance of their nation, as among the people of the early Bible… our Germanists would do well to notice… the science of religions is able to make the comparison; and to the people of Israel it will award this certificate: You have excelled them all by the sublimity of your religion…”Michael von Faulhaber Sermon 1
“The times are not far distant when we used to hear the cry in Communistic circles: 'Private property is a theft from the people.' Fortunately these voices are now silenced.”Michael von Faulhaber Sermon Three, p. 53 Sermon Three