We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.

There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.