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

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?

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.

Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.

The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead

To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.

Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do and what you should be - it's only a silly idea that passes through your mind.

Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.