When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.

It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.

Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.