This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.