A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.