"Melanchthon is a miserable little worm of a man."

"A man remains foolish until his 40th year, when he begins to recognize his foolishness; then life is soon over."

"You are not yet a master of the Scriptures. You will find that out when you try to preach."

"It is enough to know simply that there is a certain inscrutable will in God, and as to what, why, and how far it wills, that is something we have no right whatever to inquire into, hanker after, care …"

"Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal with them with utmost severity, as Moses did in the wilderness, when he slew three thousand... for if we …"