During his last illness, Luther was troubled with severe headaches. Someone recommended to him an expensive medicine. Luther smiled.
"No," he said, "my best prescription for head and heart is that 'God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' "
Two weeks before he passed away he repeated the text with evident ecstasy, and added: "What Spartan saying can be compared with this wonderful brevity. It is the Bible itself!" And in his dying moments he again repeated the words three times in Latin.
"They are the best prescription for headaches and heartaches!" said Luther.