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.

As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.