"Gird yourselves, everyone of you, I say, and be valiant sons; for it is better for you to die in battle than to behold, the sorrows of your race and of your holy places. Let neither property nor the a…"

"Let no one, on account of his love for his wife or children, hesitate to set out."

"The Turks, a race of Persians, have taken the Holy Land; they circumcise Christians and pour the blood from the circumcision on the altars or into baptismal fonts."

"Let those who have been for a long time plunderers, now become Christian knights."

"The royal city, situated at the center of the world, is now held captive by His enemies, and is enslaved by peoples who do not know God."