Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it

Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.