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.

In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.

In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.