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A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it
If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.
What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death.
The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.
If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.
It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.
God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.
Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.
Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough.
Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.
In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.
Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.
Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.
Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.
What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?
Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.
True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.
Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.
What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?
To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.
How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian.
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.
The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious
Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.