Martin Luther — "The Christian's life is not a bed of roses, but a cross."

"This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing towar…"

"If we do [tolerate their conduct], we become sharers in their lies, cursing and blasphemy. Thus we cannot extinguish the unquenchable fire of divine wrath, of which the prophets speak, nor can we conv…"

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

"Secondly, their homes also should be razed and destroyed. For they pursue the same aims in them as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies, in ord…"

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