Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.