"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."

"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."

"A mighty fortress is our God A bulwark never failing Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing."

"So unbelief alone commits sin..Hence Christ calls unbelief the only sin."

"There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day."

"The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid."

"Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land."

"Forgiveness is God's command."

"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness."

"The defects of a preacher are soon spied."

"Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs I would enter."

"Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."

"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."

"People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions."

"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."

"Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person."

"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without."

"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."

"Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior."

"It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience."

"You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you."

"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."

"A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all."

"Nothing good ever comes of violence."

"All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired."

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

"I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart."

"To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing."

"Love is not only pure joy, and delight, but also great and deep heaviness of heart and sorrow. But love too is full of joy and sweetness even in bitter sorrow, because it regards the misery and injury of others as its own. So also Christ was glowing with burning love in His last and greatest agony. According to St. Hilary, it was Christ's greatest joy that He endured the greatest woe. Thus God "giveth strength and power unto His people" (Ps. 68:15). While they experience the greatest sorrow, their hearts overflow with joy."

"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world."

"Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon."

"Some plague the people with too long sermons for the faculty of listening is a tender thing and soon becomes weary and satiated."

"The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride."

"He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free."

"There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. Why is it, then, that we leave the good out of sight and feast our eyes on the unclean things? It is as though we enjoyed only looking at " if you will pardon the expression " a man's behind."

"God uses lust to impel men to marry ambition to office avarice to earning and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat."

"In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children."

"Christian life consists in faith and charity."

"This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident."

"I am bound by conscience and the word of God. Therefore I can and will recant nothing, because to act against one's conscience is neither safe nor salutary. Here I stad. I can do no ether. So help me God."

"Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see."

"All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word."

"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

"Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted."

"Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart."

"The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands."

"Pray, and let God worry."

"If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy."

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