No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.

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.

I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.

I think our problems are inherently unsolvable. We need to change our genetic make-up or create computers that will think us out of it. I don't think humans are able to deal with what we have.

I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

They live too long who happiness outlive.

As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.