Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage.

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.