If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

The Bible is God's love letter to us

O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.