When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.

Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die.

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.