“Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.”

“Secondly, [man] should weigh his abilities-or rather lack of abilities.”

“...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...”

“If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.”

“A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.”

“No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!”

“For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God”