For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they should remain as they were before they received grace and mercy; but he condones and forgives both sin and death for the sake of Christ, who has fulfilled the whole Law in order thereby to make the heart sweet and through the Holy Spirit to kindle and move the heart to begin to love from day to day more and more.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.

It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.