Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.

From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God’s Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! – through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails – yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I’ll show you his god.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

Pray, and let God worry.

When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone…How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?