As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him.

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

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

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.