"Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?"

"Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law..."

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

"The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices."

"When I am angry I can pray well and preach well."

"This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified."

"He who sleeps does not sin."

"Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long."

"Tomorrow I plan to work work from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer."

"If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people."

"Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope."

"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."

"The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else."

"I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist."

"Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good."

"Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!"

"Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me."

"Faith is a living and unshakable confidence a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake."

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."

"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."

"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."

"Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other."

"The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good."

"Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning."

"Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen."

"The devil does not stay where music is."

"To progress is always to begin always to begin again."

"Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep. And this you may do by inveighing against the laws and lawgivers, and yet at the same time observing these laws with the weak, lest they be offended, until they shall themselves recognize the tyranny, and understand their own liberty."

"To an unbelieving person nothing renders service or work for good. He himself is in servitude to all things, and all things turned out for evil to him, because he uses all things in impious way for his own advantage, and not for the glory of God."

"I know a beautiful garden, where there are a great many children in fine little coats, and they go under the trees and gather beautiful apples and pears, cherries and plums; they sing and run about and are as happy as they can be. Sometimes they ride on nice little ponies, with golden bridles and silver saddles. I asked the man whose garden it is, "What little children are these? And he told me, "They are little children who love to pray and learn and are good."

"The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for."

"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

"For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel."

"Lo! my God, without merit on my part, of His pure and free mercy, has given to me (an unworthy, condemned, and contemptible creature) all the riches of justification and salvation in Christ.For such a Father then, who has overwhelmed me with these inestimable riches of His, why should I not freely, cheerfully, with my whole heart and with an eager will, do all that I know will be pleasing to Him, and acceptable in His sight?I will therefore give myself, as a sort of Christ, to my neighbor, as Christ has given Himself to me; and will do nothing in this life, except what I see will be needful, advantageous, and wholesome for my neighbor, since by faith I abound in all good things in Christ."

"If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old."

"A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor."

"To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching."

"Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height."

"The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God."

"If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."

"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self."

"True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue."

"Satan, the god of all dissension stirs up daily new sects. And last of all which of all others I should have foreseen or once suspected. He has raised up a sect such as teach that men should not be terrified by the Law but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ."

"I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer."

"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has."

"We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone."

"Christian life consists of faith and charity."

"I have covenanted with my Lord that He should not send visions, or dreams or even angels! I am content with this gift of the Scriptures, which teaches and supplies all that is necessary both for this life and that which is to come."

"I have to hurry all day to get time to pray."