"After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers."
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"We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman."
"The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them."
"No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped."
"It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences."
"If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth"
"If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy."
"Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him."
"When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name."
"I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair."
"May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope."
"In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart."
"Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever."
"The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more, that we let God alone work in us and that we do nothing of our own with all our powers."
"When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor."
"The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins."
"Despair makes priests and friars."
"Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth."
"The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes."
"No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise."