...in a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books...

Table Talk, "Of God's Word," II

The Holy Ghost must be our only master and tutor.

Table Talk, "Of God's Word," IV

We must ever remain scholars here; we cannot sound the depth of one single verse in scripture...

Table Talk, "Of God's Word," VIII

The saints, indeed, know God’s Word, and can discourse of it, but the practice is another matter; therein we shall ever remain scholars.

Table Talk, "Of God's Word," XI

Though I am an old doctor of divinity, to this day I have not got beyond the children’s learning—the The Commandments, the Belief, and the Lord’s Prayer; and these I understand not so well as I should, though I study them daily.

Table Talk, "Of God's Word," XI

All men now presume to criticize the gospel. Almost every old doting fool or prating sophist must, forsooth, be a doctor in divinity.

Table Talk, "Of God's Word," LXI

I did not learn my divinity at once...

Table Talk, "Of God's Word," LXII