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

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

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

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

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

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.