Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.

The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other