I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

One is not righteous who does much, but the one who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, 'Do this,' and it is never done. Grace says, 'Believe in this,' and everything is already done.

When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.