What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice: First, that one should set fire to their synagogues. . . . Then that one should also break down and destroy their houses. . . . That one should drive them out the country.

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of mere gain.

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

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.