A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.