God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.

Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.

Christians are rare people on earth.

A unjust law, is no law at all.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.