A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.
There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.
The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.
A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.
Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.
Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.
Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder – in the life to come.
The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.
Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.
The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.
A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.
Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.
Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school...
When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.