I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!

Then they began to say: 'Yes, but how can we know what is God's Word, and what is right or wrong? We must learn this from the Pope and the councils.' Very well then, let them conclude and say what they please, yet I will reply, you cannot put your confidence in that nor thus satisfy your conscience, for you must determine this matter yourself, for your very life depends upon it. Therefore God must speak to your heart: This is God's Word; otherwise you are undecided.

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.

So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee.