If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.

May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope.

To do so no more is the truest repentance.

Despair makes priests and friars.

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder -- in the life to come.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom -- this is the reason for our rejoicing.

He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world comprehends them not, from ignorance of that mortification which is the gift of God's word.

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy, to him be power and authority for ever and ever.

The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.

Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.