Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

The devil is God's ape!

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.