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

As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and does not utterly despair of himself, and so is not humbled before God. Such a man plans out for himself a position, an occasion, a work, which shall bring him final salvation, but which will not.

I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.