Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics eases and all things seem to be at peace.

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.