“One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!”

“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”

“Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!”

“If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.”

“Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.”

“all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.”

“no one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.”