In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

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.

In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.