The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.