Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.