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At The Center Of The Christian Faith Is The Affirmation That There Is A God In The Universe Who Is The Ground And Essence Of All Reality. A Being Of Infinite Love And Boundless Power, God Is The Creator, Sustainer, And Conserver Of Values....in Contrast To The Ethical Relativism Of [totalitarianism], Christianity Sets Forth A System Of Absolute Moral Values And Affirms That God Has Placed Within The Very Structure Of This Universe Certain Moral Principles That Are Fixed And Immutable.

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At The Center Of The Christian Faith Is The Affirmation That There Is A God In The Universe Who Is The Ground And Essence Of All Reality. A Being Of Infinite Love And Boundless Power, God Is The Creator, Sustainer, And Conserver Of Values....in Contrast To The Ethical Relativism Of [totalitarianism], Christianity Sets Forth A System Of Absolute Moral Values And Affirms That God Has Placed Within The Very Structure Of This Universe Certain Moral Principles That Are Fixed And Immutable.

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The Best Way To Drive Out The Devil, If He Will Not Yield To Texts Of Scripture, Is To Jeer And Flout Him, For He Cannot Bear Scorn.

The Veneration Of Mary Is Inscribed In The Very Depths Of The Human Heart

Therefore The Blind Jews Are Truly Stupid Fools.

Whoever Has Skill In Music Is Of Good Temperament And Fitted For All Things. We Must Teach Music In Schools.

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?

God Is A Blank Sheet Upon Which Nothing Is Found But What You Yourself Have Written.

For The Devil Is Better Pleased With Coarse Blockheads And With Folks Who Are Useful To Nobody; Because Where Such Characters Abound, Then Things Do Not Go On Prosperously Here On Earth.

Beautiful Music Is The Art Of The Prophets That Can Calm The Agitations Of The Soul; It Is One Of The Most Magnificent And Delightful Presents God Has Given Us.

No Man Should Be Alone When He Opposes Satan. The Church And The Ministry Of The Word Were Instituted For This Purpose, That Hands May Be Joined Together And One May Help Another.

Now The Church Is Not Wood And Stone, But The Company Of Believing People; One Must Hold To Them, And See How They Believe, Live And Teach.

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.

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.

God Wants Our Conscience To Be Certain And Sure That It Is Pleasing To Him. This Cannot Be Done If The Conscience Is Led By Its Own Feelings, But Only If It Relies On The Word Of God.

Men Are Not Made Religious By Performing Certain Actions Which Are Externally Good, But They Must First Have Righteous Principles, And Then They Will Not Fail To Perform Virtuous Actions.

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

Once Sure That The Doctrine We Teach Is God's Word, Once Certain Of This, We May Build Thereupon, And Know That This Cause Shall And Must Remain; The Devil Shall Not Be Able To Overthrow It, Much Less The World Be Able To Uproot It, How Fiercely Soever It Rage.

The Bible Is The Cradle Wherein Christ Is Laid.

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The Truth Of The Matter Is Rather As Christ Says, "he Who Is Not With Me Is Against Me." ... He Does Not Say "he Who Is Not With Me Is Not Against Me Either, But Merely Neutral.

My Temptations Have Been My Masters Of Divinity.

Lord God, I Thank Thee That Thou Hast Been Pleased To Make Me A Poor And Indigent Man Upon Earth. I Have Neither House Nor Land Nor Money, To Leave Behind Me. Thou Hast Given Me Wife And Children, Whom I Now Restore To Thee. Lord, Nourish, Teach, And Preserve Them As Thou Hast Me.

It Is God Who Creates, Effects, And Preserves All Things Through His Almighty.

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He [christ] Died For Me. He Made His Righteousness Mine And Made My Sin His Own; And If He Made My Sin His Own, Then I Do Not Have It, And I Am Free.

No One May Forsake Their Neighbors When They Are In Trouble. Everybody Is Under Obligation To Help And Support Their Neighbors As They Would Themselves Like To Be Helped.

Help And Support

Can He Who Understands Not God's Word, Understand God's Works?

It Is The Duty Of A Prudent Minister Of God To Hold His Ministry In Honor And To See To It That It Is Respected By Those Who Are In His Charge. Moreoever, It Is The Duty Of A Faithful Minister Not To Exceed His Powers And Not To Abuse His Office In Pride, But, Rather, To Administer It For The Benefit Of His Subjects.

Peace Is More Important Than All Justice; And Peace Was Not Made For The Sake Of Justice, But Justice For The Sake Of Peace.

Whenever The True Message Of The Cross Is Abolished, The Anger Of Hypocrites And Heretics Eases And All Things Seem To Be At Peace.

We Are Not Yet What We Shall Be, But We Are Growing Toward It, The Process Is Not Yet Finished.

This Is The Reason Why Our Theology Is Certain: Because It Seizes Us From Ourselves And Places Us Outside Ourselves.

There Is No Rustic So Rude But That, If He Dreams Or Fancies Anything, It Must Be The Whisper Of The Holy Ghost, And He Himself A Prophet.

I Myself Saw And Touched At Dessay, A Child Of This Sort, Which Had No Human Parents, But Had Proceeded From The Devil. He Was Twelve Years Old, And, In Outward Form, Exactly Resembled Ordinary Children.

We Need Not Invite The Devil To Our Table; He Is Too Ready To Come Without Being Asked. The Air All About Us Is Filled With Demons.

The Truth Is Mightier Than Eloquence, The Spirit Greater Than Genius, Faith More Than Education.

He Who Loves Not Women, Wine, And Song Remains A Fool His Whole Life Long.

That Little Bird Has Chosen His Shelter. Above It Are The Stars And The Deep Heaven Of Worlds. Yet He Is Rocking Himself To Sleep Without Caring For Tomorrow's Lodging, Calmly Clinging To His Little Twig, And Leaving God To Think For Him.

They [rulers] Must Act Like A Good Physician Who, When Gangrene Has Set In Proceeds Without Mercy To Cut, Saw, And Burn Flesh, Veins, Bone, And Marrow. Such A Procedure Must Also Be Followed In This Instance. Burn Down Their Synagogues, Forbid All That I Enumerated Earlier, Force Them To Work, And Deal Harshly With Them, As Moses Did... If This Does Not Help We Must Drive Them Out Like Mad Dogs.

God Wants Us To Pray, And He Wants To Hear Our Prayers-not Because We Are Worthy, But Because He Is Merciful.

He Who Wholly Renounces Himself, And Relies Not On Mere Human Reason, Will Make Good Progress In The Scriptures; But The World Comprehends Them Not, From Ignorance Of That Mortification Which Is The Gift Of God's Word.

The Jews Are The Most Miserable People On Earth. They Are Plagued Everywhere, And Scattered About All Countries, Having No Certain Resting Place. They Sit As On A Wheelbarrow, Without A Country, People Or Government... But They Are Rightly Served, For Seeing They Refused Have Christ And His Gospel, Instead Of Freedom They Must Have Servitude.

Scripture Is The Manger In Which We Find The Christ Child.

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

God Foreknows Nothing By Contingency, But That He Foresees, Purposes, And Does All Things According To His Immutable, Eternal, And Infallible Will. By This Thunderbolt, "free-will" Is Thrown Prostrate, And Utterly Dashed To Pieces.

No Man Understands The Scriptures, Unless He Be Acquainted With The Cross.

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.

To Be A Christian Without Prayer Is No More Possible Than To Be Alive Without Breathing.

Prayer Is A Very Precious Medicine, One That Certainly Helps And Never Fails, If You Will Only Use It.

... We Must Drive Them [jews] Out Like Mad Dogs, So That We Do Not Become Partakers Of Their Abominable Blasphemy And All The Their Other Vices And Thus Merit God's Wrath And Be Damned With Them.

God Does Not Need Your Good Works, But Your Neighbor Does.

If Men Only Believe Enough In Christ They Can Commit Adultery And Murder A Thousand Times A Day Without Periling Their Salvation.

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

The Devil Is God's Ape!

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This Letter [to The Romans] Is Truly The Most Important Piece In The New Testament. It Is Purest Gospel. It Is Well Worth A Christian's While Not Only To Memorize It Word For Word But Also To Occupy Himself With It Daily, As Though It Were The Daily Bread Of The Soul. It Is Impossible To Read Or To Meditate On This Letter Too Much Or Too Well. The More One Deals With It, The More Precious It Becomes, And The Better It Tastes.

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.

A Great Variety Of Reading Confuses And Does Not Teach. It Makes The Student Like A Man Who Dwells Everywhere And, Therefore, Nowhere In Particular.

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

Without Armaments Peace Cannot Be Kept; Wars Are Waged Not Only To Repel Injustice But Also To Establish A Firm Peace.

I Know Not The Way God Leads Me, But Well Do I Know My Guide.

Reason Must Be Deluded, Blinded, And Destroyed. Faith Must Trample Underfoot All Reason, Sense, And Understanding, And Whatever It Sees Must Be Put Out Of Sight And ... Know Nothing But The Word Of God.

When Jesus Christ Utters A Word, He Opens His Mouth So Wide That It Embraces All Heaven And Earth, Even Though That Word Be But In A Whisper.

This Is The Good And Happy News, That Christ Has Paid For Our Sin, And Through His Suffering Has Redeemed Us From Eternal Death. It Is His Kingdom And His Ministry, To Preach The Gospel To The Poor; That Is His Purpose. For To The Great And Holy He Cannot Come. They Do Not Wish To Be Counted Sinners, And Therefore Do Not Need His Gospel.

Nothing Is Easier Than Sinning.

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Our Office...subjects Us To Great Burdens And Labors, Dangers And Temptations, With Little Reward Or Gratitude From The World. But Christ Himself Will Be Our Reward If We Labor Faithfully.

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.

Adam Was Created, As It Were, Intoxicated With Rejoicing Toward God And Was Delighted Also With All The Other Creatures.

Many Demons Are In Woods, In Waters, In Wildernesses, And In Dark Poolly Places Ready To Hurt And Prejudice People; Some Are Also In The Thick Black Clouds, Which Cause Hail, Lightning And Thunder, And Poison The Air, The Pastures And Grounds.

Christ Is The Master; The Scriptures Are Only The Servant.

Faith Ever Says, "if Thou Wilt," Not "if Thou Canst.

God Does Not Love Sinners Because They Are Attractive; Sinners Are Attractive To God Because He Loves Them.

A Penny Saved Is Better Than A Penny Earned.

Like The Early Christians, We Must Move Into A Sometime Hostile World Armed With The Revolutionary Gospel Of Jesus Christ. With This Powerful Gospel We Shall Boldly Challenge The Status Quo.

God Freely Forgives Us On Account Of Christnot On Account Of Our Works, Contrition, Confession, Or Satisfactions.

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 God Is Not Gracious And Merciful To Sinners To The End That They Might Not Keep His Law, Nor That They Should Remain As They Were Before They Received Grace And Mercy; But He Condones And Forgives Both Sin And Death For The Sake Of Christ, Who Has Fulfilled The Whole Law In Order Thereby To Make The Heart Sweet And Through The Holy Spirit To Kindle And Move The Heart To Begin To Love From Day To Day More And More.

The World Says Of Marriage: A Short Joy And A Long Displeasure. But He Who Understands It Finds In It Delight, Love, And Joy Without Ceasing.

Farewell Unhappy, Hopeless, Blasphemous Rome! The Wrath Of God Has Come Upon You, As You Deserve. We Cared For Babylon, And She Is Not Healed; Let Us Then Leave Her, That She May Become The Habitation Of Dragons, Spectres, And Witches.

God Can Be Found Only In Suffering And The Cross.

Reason Should Be Destroyed In All Christians.

We Are Nothing With All Our Gifts Be They Ever So Great, Except God Assist Us.

You Should Point To The Whole Man Jesus And Say, That Is God.

One Is Not Righteous Who Does Much, But The One Who, Without Work, Believes Much In Christ. The Law Says, 'do This,' And It Is Never Done. Grace Says, 'believe In This,' And Everything Is Already Done.

We Must Meet Hate With Love. We Must Meet Physical Force With Soul Force.

The World Doesn't Want To Be Punished. It Wants To Remain In Darkness. It Doesn't Want To Be Told That What It Believes Is False. If You Also Don't Want To Be Corrected, Then You Might As Well Leave The Church And Spend Your Time At The Bar And Brothel. But If You Want To Be Saved-and Remember That There's Another Life After This One-you Must Accept Correction.

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

It Is Impossible For A Man To Be A Christian Without Having Christ; And If He Has Christ He Has At The Same Time All That Is In Christ.

It Is As If A Wolf Devoured A Sheep And The Sheep Were So Powerful That It Transformed The Wolf And Turned Him Into A Sheep. So, When We Eat Christ's Flesh Physically And Spiritually, The Food Is So Powerful That It Transforms Us.

God Uses Lust To Impel Men To Marry, Ambition To Office, Avarice To Earning, And Fear To Faith. God Led Me Like An Old Blind Goat.

I Have So Much To Do Today That I Must Set Apart More Time Than Usual To Pray.

Indeed, To Spur Your Baal To Action, I Will Taunt And Challenge You ... To Create As Much As A Single Frog In The Name And By The Power Of Free Choice, Though The Heathen And Ungodly Magicians In Egypt Were Able To Create Many.... I Will Not Set You The Heavy Task Of Creating Lice, Which They Could Not Produce Either

As Long As There Is Poverty In This World, No Man Can Be Totally Rich Even If He Has A Billion Dollars.

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.

The Bible Is The Book That Makes Fools Of The Wise Of This World; It Is Only Understood By The Plain And Simple Hearted.

A Person Whodoes Not Regard Music As A Marvelous Creation Of God, Must Be A Clodhopper Indeed And Does Not Deserve To Be Called A Human Being; He Should Be Permitted To Hear Nothing But The Braying Of Asses And The Grunting Of Hogs.

Blessed Is The Man That Hath Not Walked In The Way Of The Sacramentarians, Nor Sat In The Seat Of The Zwinglians, Nor Followed The Council Of The Zurichers.

Some People Need A Fig-leaf On Their Mouths.

Anything That One Imagines Of God Apart From Christ Is Only Useless Thinking And Vain Idolatry.

Peace If Possible, Truth At All Costs.

I Cannot Choose But Adhere To The Word Of God, Which Has Possession Of My Conscience; Nor Can I Possibly, Nor Will I Even Make Any Recantation, Since It Is Neither Safe Nor Honest To Act Contrary To Conscience! Here I Stand; I Cannot Do Otherwise, So Help Me God! Amen.

The Offering Of [the Body] Is Called A Spiritual Sacrifice Because It Is Freely Sacrificed Through The Spirit, The Christian Being Uninfluenced By The Constrainst Of The Low Or The Fear Of Hell.

We Need To Hear The Gospel Every Day, Because We Forget It Every Day.

A Safe Stronghold Our God Is Still. A Trusty Shield And Weapon.

Our Bodies Are Always Exposed To Satan. The Maladies I Suffer Are Not Natural, But Devil's Spells.

Some Will Object That The Law Is Divine And Holy. Let It Be Divine And Holy. The Law Has No Right To Tell Me That I Must Be Justified By It.

Undoubtedly They Do More And Viler Things Than Those Which We Know And Discover

I Was Born To Fight Devils And Factions. It Is My Business To Remove Obstacles, To Cut Down Thorns, To Fill Up Quagmires And To Open And Make Straight Paths. If I Must Have Some Failing Let Me Rather Speak The Truth With Too Great Sincerity Than Once To Act The Hypocrite And Conceal The Truth.

I Am Of A Different Mind Ten Times In The Course Of A Day. But I Resist The Devil, And Often It Is With A Fart That I Chase Him Away. When He Tempts Me With Silly Sins I Say, 'devil, Yesterday I Broke Wind Too. Have You Written It Down On Your List?

Come, Let Us Sing A Psalm, And Drive Away The Devil.

Beer Is Made By Men, Wine By God.

Whenever The Devil Harasses You, Seek The Company Of Men Or Drink More, Or Joke And Talk Nonsense, Or Do Some Other Merry Thing. Sometimes We Must Drink More, Sport, Recreate Ourselves, And Even Sin A Little To Spite The Devil, So That We Leave Him No Place For Troubling Our Consciences With Trifles. We Are Conquered If We Try Too Conscientiously Not To Sin At All. So When The Devil Says To You: Do Not Drink, Answer Him: I Will Drink, And Right Freely, Just Because You Tell Me Not To.

What Harm Would It Do, If A Man Told A Good Strong Lie For The Sake Of The Good.

It Is False That The Will, Left To Itself, Can Do Good As Well As Evil, For It Is Not Free, But In Bondage...on The Side Of Man There Is Nothing That Goes Before Grace, Unless It Be Impotency And Even Rebellion.

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, A Bulwark Never Failing; Our Helper He, Amid The Flood Of Mortal Ills Prevailing: For Still Our Ancient Foe Doth Seek To Work Us Woe; His Craft And Power Are Great, And, Armed With Cruel Hate, On Earth Is Not His Equal.

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.

Works Indeed Are Good, And God Strictly Requires Them Of Us, But They Do Not Make Us Holy.

World, Death, Devil, Hell, Away And Leave Me In Peace! You Have No Hold On Me. If You Will Not Let Me Live, Then I Will Die. But You Won't Succeed In That. Chop My Head Off, And It Won't Harm Me. I Have A God Who Will Give Me A New One.

Therefore, Is Thy Brother A Sinner? Then Cover His Sin And Pray For Him. Dost Thou Publish His Sins, Then Truly Thou Art Not A Child Of Your Merciful Father; For Otherwise Thou Wouldst Be Also As He, Merciful. It Is Certainly True That We Cannot Show As Great Mercy To Our Neighbor, As God Has To Us; But It Is The True Work Of The Devil That We Do The Very Opposite Of Mercy, Which Is A Sure Sign That There Is Not A Grain Of Mercy In Us.

I [i.e., God] Have Given You Baptism As A Gift For The Forgiveness Of Sins, And Preach To You Unceasingly By Word Of Mouth Concerning This Treasure, Sealing It With The Sacrament Of My Body And Blood, So That You Need Never Doubt. True, It Seems Little And Insignificant That By The Washing Of Water, The Word, And The Sacrament This Should All Be Effected. But Don't Let Your Eyes Deceive You.

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.

You Must Learn That If You Are A Christian, You Will Without A Doubt Experience All Kinds Of Opposition And Evil Inclinations In The Flesh. For When You Have Faith, There Will Be A Hundred More Evil Thoughts And A Hundred More Temptations Than Before.

The Faith Towards God In Christ Must Be Sure And Steadfast, That It May Solace And Make Glad The Conscience, And Put It To Rest. When A Man Has This Certainty, He Has Overcome The Serpent; But If He Be Doubtful Of The Doctrine, It Is For Him Very Dangerous To Dispute With The Devil.

God Wants To Be Praised For Nourishing And Cherishing, For He Cherishes All Creatures. He Is Not Only The Creator, But He Is Also The Sustainer And Nourisher.

There Are Three Conversions Necessary (for The Christian Life): The Conversion Of The Heart, The Mind, And The Purse.

‎what You Do In Your House Is Worth As Much As If You Did It Up In Heaven For Our Lord God. We Should Accustom Ourselves To Think Of Our Position And Work As Sacred And Well-pleasing To God, Not On Account Of The Position And Work, But On Account Of The Word And Faith From Which The Obedience And Work Flow.

God Is Not A God Of Sadness, Death, Etc., But The Devil Is. Christ Is A God Of Joy, And So The Scriptures Often Say That We Should Rejoice ... A Christian Should And Must Be A Cheerful Person.

What The Situation Will Be Like In The World Before The Lord Returns, Namely, Christ Will Be Despised, And The Preachers Of The Gospel Will Be Regarded As Fools.

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.

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

When I Am Angry I Can Pray Well And Preach Well.

This Is The Most Dangerous Trial Of All, When There Is No Trial And Every Thing Goes Well; For Then A Man Is Tempted To Forget God, To Become Too Bold And To Misuse Times Of Prosperity.

A Just Law Is A Man-made Code That Squares With The Moral Law Or The Law Of God. An Unjust Law Is A Code That Is Out Of Harmony With The Moral Law. To Put It In The Terms Of Saint Thomas Aquinas, An Unjust Law Is A Human Law That Is Not Rooted In Eternal And Natural Law.

[the Papists] Ought To Have Sympathy With Us Weak, Poor Christians, And Not Condemn Us Or Make Fun Of Us Because We Are Learning So Childishly To Toddle Along The Benches, Nay, To Creep In The Mire, And Cannot Skip And Dance, On Such Light Feet And Legs, Over And Outside Of God's Commandments, As They Do, The Strong Heroes And Giants ... God Forbid That We Should!

The Defects Of A Preacher Are Soon Spied.

Who Waits Until Circumstances Completely Favor His Undertaking, Will Never Accomplish Anything.

Procrastination

When Eve Was Brought Unto Adam, He Became Filled With The Holy Spirit, And Gave Her The Most Sanctified, The Most Glorious Of Appellations. He Called, Her Eva--that Is To Say, The Mother Of All. He Did Not Style Her Wife, But Simply Mother--mother Of All Living Creatures. In This Consists The Glory And The Most Precious Ornament Of Woman.

But The Jews Are So Hardened That They Listen To Nothing; Though Overcome By Testimonies They Yield Not An Inch. It Is A Pernicious Race, Oppressing All Men By Their Usury And Rapine. If They Give A Prince Or Magistrate A Thousand Florins, They Extort Twenty Thousand From The Subjects In Payment. We Must Ever Keep On Guard Against Them.

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.

Your Work Is A Very Sacred Matter. God Delights In It, And Through It, He Wants To Best His Blessings On You. This Praise Of Work Should Be Inscribed On All Tools, On The Forehead And The Faces That Sweat From Toiling.

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?'

Amen Meaneth Assuredly, Namely, That I Am Sure That Petitions Of This Kind Are Accepted By My Heavenly Father, And Heard By Him, Because He Hath Commanded Us, That We Should Pray After This Manner, And Hath Promised That He Will Hear Us. Amen, Amen: That Is, Truly, Certainly, So Be It.

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.

The Human Heart Is Like A Millstone In A Mill: When You Put Wheat Under It, It Turns And Grinds And Bruises The Wheat To Flour; If You Put No Wheat, It Still Grinds On, But Then 'tis Itself It Grinds And Wears Away.

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

We Old Folks Have To Find Our Cushions And Pillows In Our Tankards. Strong Beer Is The Milk Of The Old.

The Heart Of Religion Lies In Its Personal Pronouns.

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

All These Things He Must Be In Me, Abiding, Living, Speaking In Me; That I May Be The Righteousness Of God In Him (2 Cor. V. 21); Not In Love, Nor In Gifts And Graces Which Follow; But In Him.

A Preacher Must Be Both Soldier And Shepherd. He Must Nourish, Defend, And Teach; He Must Have Teeth In His Mouth, And Be Able To Bite And Fight.

I Hate Myself, That I Cannot Believe It So Constantly And Surely As I Should; But No Human Creature Can Rightly Know How Mercifully God Is Inclined Toward Those That Steadfastly Believe In Christ.

What Shall We Do With...the Jews?...i Advise That Safe-conduct On The Highways Be Abolished Completely For The Jews.

Christians Are Rare People On Earth.

After The Devil Himself, There Is No Worse Folk Than The Pope And His Followers.

The Sin Underneath All Our Sins Is To Trust The Lie Of The Serpent That We Cannot Trust The Love And Grace Of Christ And Must Take Matters Into Our Own Hands

Thus Every Matter, If It Is To Be Done Well, Calls For The Attention Of The Whole Person.

The Reproduction Of Mankind Is A Great Marvel And Mystery. Had God Consulted Me In The Matter, I Should Have Advised Him To Continue The Generation Of The Species By Fashioning Them Out Of Clay.

Therefore Be On Your Guard Against The Jews, Knowing That Wherever They Have Their Synagogues, Nothing Is Found But A Den Of Devils In Which Sheer Self-glory, Conceit, Lies, Blasphemy, And Defaming Of God And Men Are Practiced Most Maliciously And Veheming His Eyes On Them.

What Is Our Death But A Night's Sleep? For As Through Sleep All Weariness And Faintness Pass Away And Cease, And The Powers Of The Spirit Come Back Again, So That In The Morning We Arise Fresh And Strong And Joyous; So At The Last Day We Shall Rise Again As If We Had Only Slept A Night, And Shall Be Fresh And Strong.

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.

We Refuse To Believe That There Are Insufficient Funds In The Great Vaults Of Opportunity Of This Nation.

Animals Are Footprints Of God.

Those Who Love Music Are Gentle And Honest In Their Tempers. I Always Loved Music, And Would Not, For A Great Matter, Be Without The Little Skill Which I Possess In The Art.

It's Not What I Don't Know That Bothers Me - It's What I Do Know And Don't Do!

Let Your Holy Angel Have Charge Concerning Us, That The Wicked One Have No Power Over Us.

The Devil, Too, Sometimes Steals Human Children; It Is Not Infrequent For Him To Carry Away Infants Within The First Six Weeks After Birth, And To Substitute In Their Place Imps.

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

Many Have Been Deceived By Outward Appearances And Have Proceeded To Write And Teach About Good Works And How They Justify Without Even Mentioning Faith.... Wearying Themselves With Many Works, They Never Come To Righteousness.

He Who Believes In God Is Not Careful For The Morrow, But Labors Joyfully And With A Great Heart. "for He Giveth His Beloved, As In Sleep." They Must Work And Watch, Yet Never Be Careful Or Anxious, But Commit All To Him, And Live In Serene Tranquility; With A Quiet Heart, As One Who Sleeps Safely And Quietly.

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.

War Is The Greatest Plague That Can Afflict Humanity, It Destroys Religion, It Destroys States, It Destroys Families. Any Scourge Is Preferable To It.

Stubbornness Should Have Been My Middle Name.

If I Fail To Spend Two Hours In Prayer Each Morning, The Devil Gets The Victory Through The Day. I Have So Much Business I Cannot Get On Without Spending Three Hours Daily In Prayer.

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.

Here I Stand; I Can Do No Other.

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.

False Preachers Are Worse Than Deflowerers Of Virgins.

It Is The Part Of A Christian To Take Care Of His Own Body For The Very Purpose That, By Its Soundness And Wellbeing, He May Be Enabled To Labour, And To Acquire And Preserve Property, For The Aid Of Those Who Are In Want, That Thus The Stronger Member May Serve The Weaker Member, And We May Be Children Of God, And Busy For One Another, Bearing One Another's Burdens, And So Fulfiling The Law Of Christ.

As Long As We Live There Is Never Enough Singing.

A Happy Fart Never Comes From A Miserable Ass.

I See A Word That Hates Evil More Than It Loves Good.

The Secret Of Contentment Is The Realization That Life Is A Gift, Not A Right. Next To Faith This Is The Highest Art - To Be Content With The Calling In Which God Has Placed You.

There Are Only Two Days On My Calendar... Today And The Day Of Judgment

He Who Is Well Acquainted With The Text Of Scripture, Is A Distinguished Theologian. For A Bible Passage Or Text Is Of More Value Than The Comments Of Four Authors.

I Would Advise No One To Send His Child Where The Holy Scriptures Are Not Supreme. Every Institution That Does Not Unceasingly Pursue The Study Of God's Word Becomes Corrupt. Because Of This We Can See What Kind Of People They Become In The Universities And What They Are Like Now.

The Holy Scriptures Surpass In Efficaciousness All The Arts And All The Sciences Of The Philosophers And Jurists; These, Though Good And Necessary To Life Here Below, Are Vain And Of No Effect As To What Concerns The Life Eternal.

A Theologian Is Born By Living, Nay Dying And Being Damned, Not By Thinking, Reading, Or Speculating.

I Am Much Afraid That The Schools Will Prove The Very Gates Of Hell, Unless They Diligently Labour In Explaining The Holy Scriptures, And Engraving Them In The Hearts Of Youth. I Advise No One To Place His Child Where The Scriptures Do Not Reign Paramount. Every Institution In Which Means Are Not Unceasingly Occupied With The Word Of God Must Be Corrupt.

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 Devil, The Originator Of Sorrowful Anxieties And Restless Troubles, Flees Before The Sound Of Music Almost As Much As Before The Word Of God....music Is A Gift And Grace Of God, Not An Invention Of Men. Thus It Drives Out The Devil And Makes People Cheerful. Then One Forgets All Wrath, Impurity, And Other Devices.

We May Well Lie With What Seems To Be A Woman Of Flesh And Blood, And Yet All The Time It Is Only A Devil In The Shape Of A Woman.

Idiots, The Lame, The Blind, The Dumb, Are Men In Whom The Devils Have Established Themselves: And All The Physicians Who Heal These Infirmities, As Though They Proceeded From Natural Causes, Are Ignorant Blockheads.

Music Is One Of The Fairest And Most Glorious Gifts Of God.

If The Devil Were Wise Enough And Would Stand By In Silence And Let The Gospel Be Preached, He Would Suffer Less Harm. For When There Is No Battle For The Gospel It Rusts And It Finds No Cause And No Occasion To Show Its Vigor And Power. Therefore, Nothing Better Can Befall The Gospel Than That The World Should Fight It With Force And Cunning.

Faith Is A Living, Daring Confidence In God's Grace, So Sure And Certain That A Man Would Stake His Life On It One Thousand Times. This Confidence In God's Grace And Knowledge Of It Makes Men Glad And Bold And Happy In Dealing With God And With All Creatures; And This Is The Work Of The Holy Ghost In Faith.

A Religion That Gives Nothing, Costs Nothing, And Suffers Nothing, Is Worth Nothing.

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

We Are Saved By Faith Alone, But The Faith That Saves Is Never Alone.

Justification By Faith

I Maintain That Some Jew Wrote It Who Probably Heard About Christian People But Never Encountered Any.

The Winds Are Nothing Else But Good Or Bad Spirits. Hark! How The Devil Is Puffing And Blowing.

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