The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.

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

Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.