Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment.

Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

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

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.