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

Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.

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

Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.