All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.