I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'