“Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.”

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love receiving from above faith and giving out below love.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

Unthankfulness is theft.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.

Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.

There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.

I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.

I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.

God to me is love.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.