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

Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

Each betrayal begins with trust.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.