It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.

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.

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.