God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice: First, that one should set fire to their synagogues. . . . Then that one should also break down and destroy their houses. . . . That one should drive them out the country.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.