The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.