We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!

For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need