We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death.

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

There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor.

The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal.

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

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?