Shocking Sayings

Drinking and eating are the highest pleasures.

My conscience is captive to the Word of God.

The more a man is skilled in the Scriptures, the more he is tempted.

Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the greatest one. Through it, God intends to spread the true knowledge of religion through the whole world.

The greatest blessing of all is to have a good wife.

He who does not love wine, women, and song remains a fool his whole life long.

The law of God is not given to make us righteous, but to show us our unrighteousness.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

I am much afraid that schools will prove to be great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount.

Let us therefore be rid of the Mass and all that pertains to it, and let us use the holy Supper of Christ in its simplicity.

I am rough, boorish, stormy, and altogether warlike. I am born to fight with devils and factions, and to lay waste the kingdom of Satan.

The greatest vice is pride.

The more one reads the Bible, the more one loves it.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our thoughts, minds, hearts, and spirits.

For we must not think that it is an arbitrary will in God that is the cause of election, but that he wills justly and without fault.

We frankly confess that God has ordained to death those whom he has not deemed worthy of life.

But if we are elected in Christ, we cannot find in ourselves the reason of our election; neither can we, by any means, comprehend it in our own understanding.

The reprobate are raised up to manifest the glory of God, when, by their condemnation, they show his justice.

God, by a just and irreprehensible, but incomprehensible judgment, has predestinated some to eternal life, and others to eternal death.

Though the will of God is the highest rule of justice, and all that he wills is to be held for righteous, yet he has not deemed it sufficient for us to acquiesce in his bare will, but has added reasons by which we may understand that he has not acted…