Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.

God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.