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?

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

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

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do!

God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.