Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out.

I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.

Christ is with us until the world's end. Let his little flock be bold therefore.

Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.

To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?

The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.

It is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden

At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.

You can never do too much drawing.