Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.

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.

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."