Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

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.

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.