When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.