"God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us."

"God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray."

"The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same."

"He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him."

"Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest."

"I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years."

"Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music."

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

"True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light."

"People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy"