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Anyone Who Can Be Proved To Be A Seditious Person Is An Outlaw Before God And The Emperor; And Whoever Is The First To Put Him To Death Does Right And Well. Therefore Let Everyone Who Can, Smite, Slay And Stab, Secretly Or Openly, Remembering That Nothing Can Be More Poisonous, Hurtful, Or Devilish Than A Rebel.

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Anyone Who Can Be

Martin Luther

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Anyone Who Can Be Proved To Be A Seditious Person Is An Outlaw Before God And The Emperor; And Whoever Is The First To Put Him To Death Does Right And Well. Therefore Let Everyone Who Can, Smite, Slay And Stab, Secretly Or Openly, Remembering That Nothing Can Be More Poisonous, Hurtful, Or Devilish Than A Rebel.

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Over Against The Devil And His Missionaries, The Authors Of False Doctrines And Sects, We Ought To Be Like The Apostle, Impatient, And Rigorously Condemnatory, As Parents Are With The Dog That Bites Their Little One, But The Weeping Child Itself They Soothe.

Not Only The Adoration Of Images Is Idolatry, But Also Trust In One's Own Righteousness, Works And Merits, And Putting Confidence In Riches And Power. As The Latter Is The Commonest, So It Also Is The Most Noxious.

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For They Who Think They Make An End Of Temptation By Yeilding To It, Only Set Themselves On Fire The More.

The Will Of Man Without The Grace Of God Is Not Free At All, But Is The Permanent Prisoner And Bondslave Of Evil Since It Cannot Turn Itself To Good.

No One Can Believe How Powerful Prayer Is And What It Can Effect, Except Those Who Have Learned It By Experience. Whenever I Have Prayed Earnestly, I Have Been Heard And Have Obtained More Than I Prayed For. God Sometimes Delays, But He Always Comes.

Music Must Be Supported By The King And The Princes, For The Maintenance Of The Arts Is Their Duty No Less Than The Maintenance Of The Laws.

The Devil Can So Completely Assume The Human Form, When He Wants To Deceive Us, That We May Well Lie With What Seems To Be A Woman, Of Real Flesh And Blood, And Yet All The While 'tis Only The Devil In The Shape Of A Woman. 'tis The Same With Women, Who May Think That A Man Is In Bed With Them, Yet 'tis Only The Devil; And...the Result Of This Connection Is Oftentimes An Imp Of Darkness, Half Mortal, Half Devil.

I Do Not Deny That Medicine Is A Gift Of God, Nor Do I Refuse To Acknowledge Science In The Skill Of Many Physicians; But, Take The Best Of Them, How Far Are They From Perfection? A Sound Regimen Produces Excellent Effects. When I Feel Indisposed, By Observing A Strict Diet And Going To Bed Early, I Generally Manage To Get Round Again, That Is, If I Can Keep My Mind Tolerably At Rest. I Have No Objection To The Doctors Acting Upon Certain Theories, But, At The Same Time, They Must Not Expect Us To Be The Slaves Of Their Fancies.

The Believing Man Hath The Holy Ghost; And Where The Holy Ghost Dwelleth, He Will Not Suffer A Man To Be Idle, Butstirreth Him Up To All Exercises Of Piety And Godliness, And Of True Religion, To The Love Of God, To The Patient Suffering Of Afflictions, To Prayer, To Thanksgiving, And The Exercise Of Charity Towards All Men.

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At Poltersberg, There Is A Lake Similarly Cursed. If You Throw A Stone Into It, A Dreadful Storm Immediately Arises, And The Whole Neighboring District Quakes To Its Centre. 'tis The Devils Kept Prisoner There.

We Ought First To Know That There Are No Good Works Except Those Which God Has Commanded, Even As There Is No Sin Except That Which God Has Forbidden.

For From The Error Of Not Knowing, Or Understanding, What Sin Is, There Necessarily Arises Another Error, That People Cannot Know Or Understand What Grace Is.

If You Want To Interpret Well And Confidently, Set Christ Before You, For He Is The Man To Whom It All Applies, Every Bit Of It.

A Penny Saved Is Better Than A Penny Earned.

Is It Not A Thing Most Abominable, That God Who Feeds So Many Mouths, Should Be Held In Such Low Esteem By Me, That I Will Not Trust Him To Feed Me? Yea, That A Guilder, Thirty-eight Cents, Should Be Valued More Highly Than God, Who Pours Out His Treasures Everywhere In Rich Profusion. For The World Is Full Of God And His Works. He Is Everywhere Present With His Gifts, And Yet We Will Not Trust In Him, Nor Accept His Visitation.

As For The Demented, I Hold It Certain That All Beings Deprived Of Reason Are Thus Afflicted Only By The Devil.

What Shall We Christians Do Now With This Depraved And Damned People Of The Jews? ... I Will Give My Faithful Advice: First, That One Should Set Fire To Their Synagogues. . . . Then That One Should Also Break Down And Destroy Their Houses. . . . That One Should Drive Them Out The Country.

If We Esteem Them Too Highly, Good Works Can Become The Greatest Idolatry.

What Shall We Do With...the Jews?...set Fire To Their Synagogues Or Schools And Bury And Cover With Dirt Whatever Will Not Burn, So That No Man Will Ever Again See A Stone Or Cinder Of Them.

All The Cunning Of The Devil Is Exercised In Trying To Tear Us Away From The Word.

To Progress Is Always To Begin Always To Begin Again

No Greater Mischief Can Happen To A Christian People, Than To Have God's Word Taken From Them, Or Falsified, So That They No Longer Have It Pure And Clear. God Grant We And Our Descendants Be Not Witness To Such A Calamity.

As Long As A Man Is Persuaded That He Can Make Even The Smallest Contribution To His Salvation, He Remains Self-confident And Does Not Utterly Despair Of Himself, And So Is Not Humbled Before God. Such A Man Plans Out For Himself A Position, An Occasion, A Work, Which Shall Bring Him Final Salvation, But Which Will Not.

If By Any Effort Of Reason I Could Conceive How God, Who Shows So Much Anger And Iniquity, Could Be Merciful And Just, There Would Be No Need Of Faith.

What Shall We Do With...the Jews?...their Homes Also Should Be Razed And Destroyed.

I Have So Many Things To Do Today, I Dare Not Ignore My Time With God.

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It Is A Miracle How God Has So Long Preserved His Book! How Great And Glorious It Is To Have The Word Of God!

The Church Converteth The Whole World By Blood And Prayer.

Feelings Come And Feelings Go, And Feelings Are Deceiving; My Warrant Is The Word Of God-- Naught Else Is Worth Believing. Though All My Heart Should Feel Condemned For Want Of Some Sweet Token, There Is One Greater Than My Heart Whose Word Cannot Be Broken. I'll Trust In God's Unchanging Word Till Soul And Body Sever, For, Though All Things Shall Pass Away, His Word Shall Stand Forever!

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I Have So Much To Do Today, I'll Need To Spend Another Hour On My Knees.

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Let A Man Be Endowed With Ten Virtues And Have But One Fault And The One Fault Will Eclipse And Darken All The Virtues.

No One Would Be Happier Than Luther To Be Commended By The Testimony Of The Time That He Had Been Neither Slack Nor Deceitful In Maintaining The Course Of Truth, But Had Shown Quite Enough And Even Too Much Vehemence.

God Created Adam Lord Of All Living Creatures, But Eve Spoiled It All.

God Is Ready To Give More Quickly, And To Give More Than You Ask; Yea, He Offers His Treasures If We Only Take Them. It Is Truly A Great Shame And A Severe Chastisement For Us Christians That God Should Still Upbraid Us For Our Slothfulness In Prayer, And That We Fail To Let Such A Rich And Excellent Promise Incite Us To Pray.

When God Wants To Speak And Deal With Us, He Does Not Avail Himself Of An Angel But Of Parents, Or The Pastor, Or Of Our Neighbor.

Great Thieves Go Scott-free, As The Pope And His Crew.

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Do Not Suppose That Abuses Are Eliminated By Destroying The Object Which Is Abused. Men Can Go Wrong With Wine And Women. Shall We Then Prohibit And Abolish Women? The Sun, The Moon, And The Stars Have Been Worshiped. Shall We Then Pluck Them Out Of The Sky? ...see How Much He [god] Has Been Able To Accomplish Through Me, Though I Did No More Than Pray And Preach. The Word Did It All. Had I Wished I Might Have Started A Conflagration At Worms. But While I Sat Still And Drank Beer With Philip And Amsdorf, God Dealt The Papacy A Mighty Blow.

Original Sin Is In Us Like Our Beard. We Are Shaved Today And Look Clean; Tomorrow Our Beard Has Grown Again, Nor Does It Cease Growing While We Remain On Earth. In Like Manner Original Sin Cannot Be Extirpated From Us; It Springs Up In Us As Long As We Live.

The Best Way To Get Rid Of The Devil, If You Cannot Kill It With The Words Of Holy Scripture, Is To Rail At And Mock Him. Music, Too, Is Very Good; Music Is Hateful To Him, And Drives Him Far Away.

An Angel Is A Spiritual Creature Created By God Without A Body, For The Service Of Christendom And Of The Church.

A Theologian Should Be Thoroughly In Possession Of The Basis And Source Of Faith--that Is To Say, The Holy Scriptures. Armed With This Knowledge It Was That I Confounded And Silenced All My Adversaries; For They Seek Not To Fathom And Understand The Scriptures; They Run Them Over Negligently And Drowsily; They Speak, They Write, They Teach, According To The Suggestion Of Their Heedless Imaginations.

If Obedience Is Not Rendered In The Homes, We Shall Never Have A Whole City, Country, Principality, Or Kingdom Well Governed. For This Order In The Homes Is The First Rule; It Is The Source Of All Other Rule And Government.

In Human Affairs We Accomplish Everything Through Prayer. What Has Been Properly Arranged We Keep In Order, What Has Gone Amiss We Change And Improve, What Cannot Be Changed And Improved We Bear, Overcoming All The Trouble And Sustaining All The Good By Prayer. Against Force There Is No Help But Prayer Alone.

Remove Christ From The Scriptures And There Is Nothing Left.

It Is An Unsufferable Blasphemy To Reject The Public Ministry Or To Say That People Can Become Holy Without Sermons And Church. This Involves A Destruction Of The Church And Rebellion Against Ecclesiastical Order; Such Upheavals Must Be Warded Off And Punished Like All Other Revolts.

The Mad Mob Does Not Ask How It Could Be Better, Only That It Be Different. And When It Then Becomes Worse, It Must Change Again. Thus They Get Bees For Flies, And At Last Hornets For Bees.

For It Is A Horrible Blasphemy To Imagine That There Is Any Work By Which You Should Presume To Pacify God, Since You See That There Is Nothing Which Is Able To Pacify Him But This Inestimable Price, Even The Death And The Blood Of The Son Of God, One Drop Of Which Is More Precious Than The Whole World.

When Asked What He Would Do If He Knew The World Would End Tomorrow, Martin Luther Said, "i Would Plant A Tree."

The Kingdom Of God Does Not Consist In Talk, But In Power, That Is, In Works And Practice. God Loves The 'doers Of The Word' In Faith And Love, And Not The 'mere Hearers,' Who, Like Parrots, Have Learned To Utter Certain Expressions With Readiness.

It Is A Good Thing To Let Prayer Be The First Business In The Morning And The Last In The Evening. Guard Yourself Against Such False And Deceitful Thoughts That Keep Whispering, "wait A While. In An Hour Or So I Will Pray. I Must First Finish This Or That." Thinking Such Thoughts We Get Away From Prayer Into Other Things That Will Hold Us And Involve Us Till The Prayer Of The Day Comes To Naught.

Christ And His Word Can Hardly Be Recognized Because Of The Great Vermin Of Human Ordinances. However, Let This Suffice For The Time Being On Their Lies Against Doctrine Or Faith.

Faith Is Permitting Ourselves To Be Seized By The Things That We Do Not See.

You Should Be Certain That Angels Are Protecting You When You Go To Sleep. Yea, That They Are Protecting You Also In All Your Business, Whether You Enter Or Leave Your Home.

Faith Is Under The Left Nipple.

Heavy Thoughts Bring On Physical Maladies; When The Soul Is Oppressed So Is The Body.

Be Thou Comforted, Little Dog, Thou Too In Resurrection Shall Have A Little Golden Tail.

Resurrection Of Jesus Christ

Everything That Is Done In This World Is Done By Hope.

We Conclude, Therefore, That A Christian Lives Not In Himself, But In Christ And In His Neighbor. Otherwise He Is Not A Christian. He Lives In Christ Through Faith, In His Neighbor Through Love. By Faith He Is Caught Up Beyond Himself Into God. By Love He Descends Beneath Himself Into His Neighbor.

The Devil Won't Stay Where There Is Music.

Whenever The True Message Of The Cross Is Abolished, The Anger Of Hypocrites And Heretics Ceases.. And All Things Are In Peace. This Is A Sure Token That The Devil Is Guarding The Entry To The House, And That The Pure Doctrine Of God's Word Has Been Taken Away. The Church Then, Is In The Best State When Satan Assaileth It On Every Sideboth With Subtle Sleights, And Outright Violence. And Likewise, It Is In The Worst State When It Is Most At Peace!

Christ Designed That The Day Of His Coming Should Be Hid From Us, That Being In Suspense, We Might Be As It Were Upon The Watch.

The Devil Is Not Only A Liar, But Also A Murderer, He Constantly Seeks Our Life, And Wreaks His Anger Whenever He Can Afflict Our Bodies With Misfortune And Harm. Hence It Comes That He Often Breaks Men's Necks Or Drives Them To Insanity, Drowns Some, And Incites Many To Commit Suicide, And To Many Other Terrible Calamities. Therefore There Is Nothing For Us To Do Upon Earth But To Pray Against This Arch Enemy Without Ceasing. For Unless God Preserved Us, We Would Not Be Safe From Him Even For An Hour.

I Have To Hurry All Day To Get Time To Pray.

Temptations, Of Course, Cannot Be Avoided, But Because We Cannot Prevent The Birds From Flying Over Our Heads, There Is No Need That We Should Let Them Nest In Our Hair.

How Great, Therefore, The Wickedness Of Human Nature Is! How Many Girls There Are Who Prevent Conception And Kill And Expel Tender Fetuses, Although Procreation Is The Work Of God.

The Fatuous Idea That A Person Can Be Holy By Himself Denies God The Pleasure Of Saving Sinners. God Must Therefore First Take The Sledge-hammer Of The Law In His Fists And Smash The Beast Of Self-righteousness And Its Brood Of Self-confidence, Self Wisdom, And Self-help. When The Conscience Has Been Thoroughly Frightened By The Law It Welcomes The Gospel Of Grace With Its Message Of A Savior Who Came-not To Break The Bruised Reed Nor To Quench The Smoking Flax-but To Preach Glad Tidings To The Poor, To Heal The Broken-hearted, And To Grant Forgiveness Of Sins To All The Captives.

Self Confidence

All Laws And Philosophy Merely Tell Us What Should Be Done, But They Do Not Provide The Strength To Do It.

We Are Beginning To Regain A Knowledge Of Creation, A Knowledge Forfeited By The Fall Of Adam. By God's Mercy We Can Begin To Recognize His Wonderful Works And Wonders Also In Flowers When We Ponder His Might And Goodness. Therefore We Laud, Magnify And Thank Him.

Godly People Are Waiting For The Lord; Therefore They Live, Therefore They Are Saved, Therefore They Receive What Has Been Promised.

Every Man Must Decide Whether He Will Walk In The Creative Light Of Altruism Or The Darkness Of Destructive Selfishness. This Is The Judgment. Life's Persistent And Most Urgent Question Is 'what Are You Doing For Others?'

Our God Is The God From Whom Cometh Salvation: God Is The Lord By Who Escape Death.

A Good Servant Is A Real Godsend, But Truly This Is A Rare Bird In The Land.

It Would Be A Good Thing If Young People Were Wise And Old People Were Strong, But God Has Arranged Things Better.

The First Duty Of The Gospel Preacher Is To Declare God's Law And To Show The Nature Of Sin.

Preaching The Gospel

Personally I Declare That I Owe The Pope No Other Obedience Than That To Antichrist.

Prayer Is A Strong Wall And Fortress Of The Church; It Is A Goodly Christian Weapon.

For God Is Wholly Present In All Creation, In Every Corner, He Is Behind You And Before You. Do You Think He Is Sleeping On A Pillow In Heaven? He Is Watching Over You And Protecting You.

Our Lord God Doesn't Do Great Things Except By Violence, As They Say

Good Works Do Not Make A Good Man, But A Good Man Does Good Works.

There Is On Earth Among All Dangers No More Dangerous Thing Than A Richly Endowed And Adroit Reason...reason Must Be Deluded, Blinded, And Destroyed.

We Are At Fault For Not Slaying The Jews.

He Who Knoweth And Understandeth Christ's Life, Knoweth And Understandeth Christ Himself; And In Like Manner, He Who Understandeth Not His Life, Doth Not Understand Christ Himself. And He Who Believeth On Christ, Believeth That His Life Is The Best And Noblest Life That Can Be, And If A Man Believe Not This, Neither Doth He Believe On Christ Himself.

I Can't Keep The Sparrows From Flying Around My Head, But I Can Keep Them From Making A Nest In My Hair.

God's Mark Is On Everything That Obeys Him.

Reason Is The Greatest Enemy That Faith Has: It Never Comes To The Aid Of Spiritual Things.

So Tenaciously Should We Cling To The World Revealed By The Gospel, That Were I To See All The Angels Of Heaven Coming Down To Me To Tell Me Something Different, Not Only Would I Not Be Tempted To Doubt A Single Syllable, But I Would Shut My Eyes And Stop My Ears, For They Would Not Deserve To Be Either Seen Or Heard.

Obedience Is The Crown And Honour Of All Virtue.

God Has Surely Promised His Grace To The Humbled: That Is, To Those Who Mourn Over And Despair Of Themselves. But A Man Cannot Be Thoroughly Humbled Till He Realizes That His Salvation Is Utterly Beyond His Own Powers, Counsels, Efforts, Will And Works, And Depends Absolutely On The Will, Counsel, Pleasure And Work Of Another -- God Alone.

Without Images We Can Neither Think Nor Understand Anything.

Let All The 'free-will' In The World Do All It Can With All Its Strength; It Will Never Give Rise To A Single Instance Of Ability To Avoid Being Hardened If God Does Not Give The Spirit, Or Of Meriting Mercy If It Is Left To Its Own Strength.

It Is Better To Think Of Church In The Ale-house Than To Think Of The Ale-house In Church.

This Error Of Free Will Is A Special Doctrine Of The Antichrist.

The Lord Commonly Gives Riches To Foolish People, To Whom He Gives Nothing Else.

Our Lord God Doeth Work Like A Printer Who Setteth The Letters Backwards; We See And Feel Well His Setting, But We Shall See The Print Yonder - In The Life To Come.

Be A Sinner And Sin Strongly, But More Strongly Have Faith And Rejoice In Christ.

What Do We Older Folks Live For If Not For The Care Of The Young, To Teach And Train Them?

Sacred Scripture Tells Us That Joshua Commanded The Sun To Stand Still, And Not The Earth.

Sacred Scripture

Prayer Is Climbing Up Into The Heart Of God.

I Had Rather Be In Hell With Christ, Than Be In Heaven Without Him.

My Heart, Which Is So Full To Overflowing, Has Often Been Solaced And Refreshed By Music When Sick And Weary.

Music Is One Of The Fairest And Most Glorious Gifts Of God, To Which Satan Is A Bitter Enemy; For It Removes From The Heart The Weight Of Sorrow, And The Fascination Of Evil Thoughts.

I Cannot Neglect Prayer For A Single Day.

From The Beginning Of My Reformation I Have Asked God To Send Me Neither Dreams, Nor Visions, Nor Angels, But To Give Me The Right Understanding Of His Word, The Holy Scriptures; For As Long As I Have God's Word, I Know That I Am Walking In His Way And That I Shall Not Fall Into Any Error Or Delusion.

Sleep Is A Most Useful And Most Salutary Operation Of Nature. Scarcely Any Minor Annoyance Angers Me More Than The Being Suddenly Awakened Out Of A Pleasant Slumber. I Understand That In Italy They Torture Poor People By Depriving Them Of Sleep. `tis A Torture That Cannot Long Be Endured.

One Book Is Enough, But A Thousand Books Is Not Too Many!

Put Thou Thy Trust In God; In Duty's Path Go On; Fix On His Word Thy Steadfast Eye; So Shall Thy Work Be Done.

For God Does Not Want To Save Us By Our Own But By An Extraneous Righteousness, One That Does Not Originate In Ourselves But Comes To Us From Beyond Ourselves, Which Does Not Arise On Earth But Comes From Heaven.

We Know That Death Never Skips Or Spares Anybody And That No One Ever Returns. And Yet We Go On Like The Blind, Who See As Little At Midday As In The Pitch-dark Night. We Do Not Take These Examples To Heart; We Do Not Realize That Today Or Tomorrow Our Turn Will Come.

The Devil Doesn't Stay Where There Is Music.

All Which Happens Through The Whole World Happens Through Hope. No Husbandman Would Sow A Grain Of Corn If He Did Not Hope It Would Spring Up And Bring Forth The Ear; How Much More We Are Helped On By Hope In The Eternal Life.

Where The Battle Rages, There The Loyalty Of The Soldier Is Proved.

We Can Mention Only One Point (which Experience Confirms), Namely, That Next To The Word Of God, Music Deserves The Highest Praise. No Greater Commendation Than This Can Be Found — At Least Not By Us. After All, The Gift Of Language Combined With The Gift Of Song Was Only Given To Man To Let Him Know That He Should Praise God With Both Word And Music, Namely, By Proclaiming [the Word Of God] Through Music.

I Know That A Christian Should Be Humble, But Against The Pope I Am Going To Be Proud And Say To Him: "you, Pope, I Will Not Have You For My Boss, For I Am Sure That My Doctrine Is Divine.

What Can Only Be Taught By The Rod And With Blows Will Not Lead To Much Good; They Will Not Remain Pious Any Longer Than The Rod Is Behind Them.

No Man Ought To Lay A Cross Upon Himself, Or To Adopt Tribulation, As Is Done In Popedom; But If A Cross Or Tribulation Come Upon Him, Then Let Him Suffer It Patiently, And Know That It Is Good And Profitable For Him.

The Whole Being Of Any Christian Is Faith And Love. Faith Brings The Person To God, Love Brings The Person To People.

When God's Righteousness Is Mentioned In The Gospel, It Is God's Action Of Declaring Righteous The Unrighteous Sinner Who Has Faith In Jesus Christ. The Righteousness By Which A Person Is Justified (declared Righteous) Is Not His Own But That Of Another, Christ.

Whilst A Man Is Persuaded That He Has It In His Power To Contribute Anything, Be It Ever So Little, To His Salvation, He Remains In Carnal Self-confidence; He Is Not A Self-despairer, And Therefore Is Not Duly Humbled Before God, He Believes He May Lend A Helping Hand In His Salvation, But On The Contrary, Whoever Is Truly Convinced That The Whole Work Depends Singly On The Will Of God, Such A Person Renounces His Own Will And Strength; He Waits And Prays For The Operation Of God, Nor Waits And Prays In Vain

Self Confidence

Be A Sinner, And Let Your Sins Be Strong, But Let Your Trust In Christ Be Stronger, And Rejoice In Christ Who Is The Victor Over Sin, Death, And The World.

Superstition, Idolatry, And Hypocrisy Have Ample Wages, But Truth Goes A Begging.

To Pray Well Is The Better Half Of Study.

If You Want To Change The World, Pick Up Your Pen And Write.

Our Lord Has Written The Promise Of Resurrection, Not In Books Alone, But In Every Leaf In Springtime.

Of All Deadly Sins, This Is The Most Deadly, Namely, That Any One Should Think He Is Not Guilty Of A Damnable And Deadly Sin Before God.

It Is Pleasing To The Dear God Whenever Thou Rejoicest Or Laughest From The Bottom Of Thy Heart.

Show Me Where A Man Spends His Time & Money, And I'll Show You His God.

Married Love Burns As Fire, And Seeks Nothing More Than The Mate. It Says, "i Want Only You"

And I'll Tell You, I've Seen The Lightning Flash. I've Heard The Thunder Roll. I Felt Sin-breakers Dashing, Trying To Conquer My Soul. But I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Saying Still To Fight On. He Promised Never To Leave Me, Never To Leave Me Alone. No, Never Alone. He Promised Never To Leave Me, Never To Leave Me Alone.

Everything Is From God Himself, Both Commandment And Fulfillment. He Alone Commands; He Alone Fulfills.

If God Were Willing To Sell His Grace, We Would Accept It More Quickly And Gladly Than When He Offers It For Nothing.

For All Works And Things, Which Are Either Commanded Or Forbidden By God And Thus Have Been Instituted By The Supreme Majesty, Are 'musts.' Nevertheless, No One Should Be Dragged To Them Or Away From Them By The Hair, For I Can Drive No Man To Heaven Or Beat Him Into It With A Club.

I Have Undertaken To Translate The Bible Into German. This Was Good For Me; Otherwise I Might Have Died In The Mistaken Notion That I Was A Learned Fellow.

If The Heart Has Been Reformed By The Spirit, It Makes Use Of Both The Useful And Delightful Things Created And Given By God In A Holy Manner And With Thanksgiving.

For In The True Nature Of Things, If We Rightly Consider, Every Green Tree Is Far More Glorious Than If It Were Made Of Gold And Silver.

Grace Remits Sin, And Peace Quiets The Conscience. Sin And Conscience Torment Us, But Christ Has Overcome These Fiends Now And Forever.

Faith Is The Master, And Reason The Maid-servant.

God Our Father Has Made All Things Depend On Faith So That Whoever Has Faith Will Have Everything, And Whoever Does Not Have Faith Will Have Nothing

My Temptations Have Been My Masters Of Divinity.

I Am More Afraid Of My Own Heart Than Of The Pope And All His Cardinals. I Have Within Me The Great Pope, Self.

The Fool Will Upset The Whole Science Of Astronomy, But As The Holy Scripture Shows, It Was The Sun And Not The Earth Which Joshua Ordered To Stand Still.

Peace If Possible, Truth At All Costs.

Teaching Is Of More Importance Than Urging.

The Body They May Kill: God’s Truth Abideth Still, His Kingdom Is Forever.

I Have Done Nothing; The Word Has Done And Accomplished Everything.... I Let The Word Do Its Work!

When The Gospel Flourishes In The Church, Everything Flourishes With It.

In The Midst Of The Affliction He Counsels, Strengthens Confirms, Nourishes, And Favors Us.... More Over, When We Have Repented, He Instantly Remits The Sins As Well As The Punishments. In The Same Manner Parents Ought To Handle Their Children.

Music Is A Discipline, And A Mistress Of Order And Good Manners, She Makes The People Milder And Gentler, More Moral And More Reasonable.

If He Have Faith, The Believer Cannot Be Restrained. He Betrays Himself. He Breaks Out. He Confesses And Teaches This Gospel To The People At The Risk Of Life Itself.

After Theology I Give To Music The Highest Place And The Greatest Honor.

When Satan Tells Me I Am A Sinner He Comforts Me Immeasurably, Since Christ Died For Sinners.

Whatever Your Heart Clings To And Confides In, That Is Really Your God, Your Functional Savior.

The First Thing I Ask Is That People Should Not Make Use Of My Name, And Should Not Call Themselves Lutherans But Christians. What Is Luther? The Teaching Is Not Mine. Nor Was I Crucified For Anyone...how Did I, Poor Stinking Bag Of Maggots That I Am, Come To The Point Where People Call The Children Of Christ By My Evil Name?

Against The Flying Ball No Valor Avails.

The Pope Is A Mere Tormentor Of Conscience. The Assembly Of His Greased And Religious Crew In Praying Was Altogether Like The Croaking Of Frogs, Which Edified Nothing At All.

Many Demons Are In Woods, In Waters, In Wildernesses, And In Dark Poolly Places Ready To Hurt...people.

Christian Life Consists Of Faith And Charity

It Is Not The Imitation That Makes Sons; It Is Sonship That Makes Imitators.

God Himself Will Milk The Cows Through Him Whose Vocation That Is.

Faith Is A Living, Bold Trust In God's Grace, So Certain Of God's Favour That It Would Risk Death A Thousand Times Trusting In It. Such Confidence And Knowledge Of God's Grace Makes You Happy, Joyful And Bold In Your Relationship To God And All Creatures. The Holy Spirit Makes This Happen Through Faith. Because Of It, You Freely, Willingly And Joyfully Do Good To Everyone, Serve Everyone, Suffer All Kinds Of Things, Love And Praise The God Who Has Shown You Such Grace.

All Who Call On God In True Faith...will Certainly Be Heard.

I Simply Taught, Preached, Wrote God's Word: Otherwise I Did Nothing. The Word Of God Did It All.

When Schools Flourish, All Flourishes.

The Will Is A Beast Of Burden. If God Mounts It, It Wishes And Goes As God Wills; If Satan Mounts It, It Wishes And Goes As Satan Wills; Nor Can It Choose Its Rider... The Riders Contend For Its Possession.

Heretics Are Not To Be Disputed With, But To Be Condemned Unheard, And Whilst They Perish By Fire, The Faithful Ought To Pursue The Evil To Its Source, And Bathe Their Heads In The Blood Of The Catholic Bishops, And Of The Pope, Who Is The Devil In Disguise.

It Is The Most Ungodly And Dangerous Business To Abandon The Certain And Revealed Will Of God In Order To Search In To The Hidden Mysteries Of God.

God's Entire Divine Nature Is Wholly And Entirely In All Creatures, More Deeply, More Inwardly, More Present Than The Creature Is To Itself.

He Who Hears This Name [god] From A Jew Must Inform The Authorities, Or Else Throw Sow Dung At Him When He Sees Him And Chase Him Away.

Mary Was Not Only Holy. She Was Also The Mother Of The Lord.

The Confidence That God Is Mindful Of The Individual Is Of Tremendous Value In Dealing With The Disease Of Fear, For It Gives Us A Sense Of Worth, Of Belonging, And Of At Homeness In The Universe.

Then They Began To Say: 'yes, But How Can We Know What Is God's Word, And What Is Right Or Wrong? We Must Learn This From The Pope And The Councils.' Very Well Then, Let Them Conclude And Say What They Please, Yet I Will Reply, You Cannot Put Your Confidence In That Nor Thus Satisfy Your Conscience, For You Must Determine This Matter Yourself, For Your Very Life Depends Upon It. Therefore God Must Speak To Your Heart: This Is God's Word; Otherwise You Are Undecided.

I Greatly Fear That The Universities, Unless They Teach The Holy Scriptures Diligently And Impress Them On The Young Students, Are Wide Gates To Hell.

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!

Blood Alone Moves The Wheels Of History.

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