Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.