If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

If the peasants are in open rebellion, then they are outside the law of God. Therefore let all who are able slash, strike down, and kill (those who rebel) openly and secretly, remembering that there can be nothing more venomous, harmful, or devilish than a rebel. It is exactly like killing a mad dog.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

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