We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.
Martin LutherWhenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.
Martin LutherIf God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.
Martin LutherBut 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.
Martin Luther