I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.

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

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.