The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

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

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.