Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'

The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.

Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough.

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.