Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow. Such a procedure must also be followed in this instance. Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them, as Moses did... If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years.

Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.