Martin Luther — "I am rough, boorish, stormy, and warlike. I am born to fight innately with innum…"

"True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue."

"The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and makes flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds away."

"Reason is the Devil's greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore, a stinking whore, she is and must be a mischievous whore."

"Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see."

"My conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen."