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

God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.

God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.