Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.

Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.