The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough.
The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.
If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings; but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
A man cannot do good before he is made good.
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.
The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the strongest sorts.
Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people’s heads. Truth is simple one argument – perhaps a good one, perhaps not – for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.
It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.
A woman has no control over herself.
Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.
I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.
Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.