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Even Like As St. Paul Was Converted, Just So Are All Others Converted; For We All Resist God, But The Holy Ghost Draws The Will Of Mankind, When He Pleases, Through Preaching.

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Even Like As St.

Martin Luther

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Even Like As St. Paul Was Converted, Just So Are All Others Converted; For We All Resist God, But The Holy Ghost Draws The Will Of Mankind, When He Pleases, Through Preaching.

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You May As Well Quit Reading And Hearing The Word Of God, And Give It To The Devil, If You Do Not Desire To Live According To It.

Christ Will Remain A Priest And King; Though He Was Never Consecrated By Any Papist Bishop Or Greased By Any Of Those Shavelings; But He Was Ordained And Consecrated By God Himself, And By Him Anointed.

Although The Christian Is Thus Free From All Works, He Ought In This Liberty To Empty Himself, Take Upon Himself The Form Of A Servant, Be Made In The Likeness Of Men, Be Found In Human Form, And To Serve, Help And In Every Way Deal With His Neighbor As He Sees That God Through Christ Has Dealt And Still Deals With Him.

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The Heart Of Religion Lies In Its Personal Pronouns.

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.

I Have Held Many Things In My Hands, And I Have Lost Them All; But Whatever I Have Placed In God's Hands, That I Still Possess.

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.

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.

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.

Music Is The 5th Gospel.

Truly, If Faith Is There, The Believer Cannot Hold Back... He Breaks Out Into Good Works.

In Switzerland, On A High Mountain, Not Far From Lucerne, There Is A Lake They Call Pilate's Pond, Which The Devil Has Fixed Upon As One Of The Chief Residences Of His Evil Spirits.

Some Plague The People With Too Long Sermons; For The Faculty Of Listening Is A Tender Thing, And Soon Becomes Weary And Satiated.

The Bible Is Alive, It Speaks To Me; It Has Feet, It Runs After Me; It Has Hands, It Lays Hold Of Me.

Whoever Would Like To Cherish Such Adders And Puny Devils - Who Are The Worst Enemies Of Christ And Us All - To Befriend Them And To Do Them Honour Simply In Order To Be Cheated, Plundered, Robbed, Disgraced, And Forced To Howl And Curse And Suffer Every Kind Of Evil, To Him I Would Commend The Jews. And If This Is Not Enough, Let Him Tell The Jews To Use His Mouth As A Privy, Or Else Crawl Into The Jew's Hind Parts, And There Worship The Holy Thing, So As Afterwards To Be Able To Boast Of Having Been Merciful, And Of Having Helped The Devil And His Progeny To Blaspheme Our Dear Lord.

Twas A Special Gift Of God That Speech Was Given To Mankind; For Through The Word, And Not By Force, Wisdom Governs.

It Is Impossible To Separate Works From Faith- Yea, Just As Impossible As To Separate Burning And Shining From Fire.

Let Him Who Wants A True Church Cling To The Word By Which Everything Is Upheld.

The Son Of God Did Not Want To Be Seen And Found In Heaven. Therefore He Descended From Heaven Into This Humility And Came To Us In Our Flesh, Laid Himself Into The Womb Of His Mother And Into The Manger And Went On To The Cross. This Was The Ladder That He Placed On Earth So That We Might Ascend To God On It. This Is The Way You Must Take.

Every Doer Of The Law And Every Moral Worker Is Accursed, For He Walketh In The Presumption Of His Own Righteousness.

Snakes And Monkeys Are Subjected To The Demon More Than Other Animals. Satan Lives In Them And Possesses Them. He Uses Them To Deceive Men And To Injure Them.

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

A Gospel That Doesn't Deal With The Issues Of The Day Is Not The Gospel At All.

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.

To Gather With God's People In United Adoration Of The Father Is As Necessary To The Christian Life As Prayer.

Cannons And Fire-arms Are Cruel And Damnable Machines; I Believe Them To Have Been The Direct Suggestion Of The Devil. If Adam Had Seen In A Vision The Horrible Instruments His Children Were To Invent, He Would Have Died Of Grief.

Hereby We May Understand That God, Of His Special Grace, Maketh The Teachers Of The Gospel Subject To The Cross, And To All Kinds Of Afflicitons, For The Salvation Of Themselves And Of The People; For Otherwise They Could By No Means Beat Down This Beast Which Is Called Vain-glory.

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

Christ Desires Nothing More Of Us Than That We Speak Of Him.

Reason Should Be Destroyed In All Christians.

Either Sin Is With You, Lying On Your Shoulders, Or It Is Lying On Christ, The Lamb Of God.

I Shall Never Be A Heretic; I May Err In Dispute, But I Do Not Wish To Decide Anything Finally; On The Other Hand, I Am Not Bound By The Opinions Of Men.

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.

Brief Let Me Be. The Fewer Words The Better Prayer.

If I Profess With Loudest Voice And Clearest Exposition Every Portion Of The Truth Of God Except That Little Point Which The World And The Devil Are At That Moment Attacking, I Am Not Confessing Christ, However Boldly I May Be Professing Christ. Where The Battle Rages, There The Loyalty Of The Soldier Is Proved, And To Be Steady On All The Battlefield Besides, Is Mere Flight And Disgrace If He Flinches At That Point.

A Christian Is Never In A State Of Completion But Always In A Process Of Becoming.

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.

The Law Of God Cannot Be Fulfilled By External Obedience.

Everything That Is Done In The World Is Done By Hope. No Merchant Or Tradesman Would Set Himself To Work If He Did Not Hope To Reap Benefit Thereby.

The Gospel Cannot Be Preached And Heard Enough, For It Cannot Be Grasped Well Enough.

In Many Countries There Are Particular Places To Which Devils More Especially Resort. In Prussia There Is An Infinite Number Of Evil Spirits.

Women Should Remain At Home, Sit Still, Keep House, And Bear And Bring Up Children...if A Woman Grows Weary And, At Last, Dies From Childbearing, It Matters Not. Let Her Die From Bearing - She Is There To Do It.

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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.

Cujus Region, Ejus Rligio (whoever's Reign, His Religion) ... He Who Owns The Country Owns The Church, And He That Makes Your Laws For You Has The Right To Make Your Religion For You.

There Can Be No Be No Better Instruction... Than That Every Man Who Is To Deal With His Neighbor To Follow These Commandments. 'whatsoever Ye Would That Others Should Do Unto You, Do Ye Also Unto Them,' And 'love Thy Neighbor As Thyself.' If These Were Always Followed, Then Everything Would Instruct And Arrange Itself; Then No Law Books Nor Courts Nor Judicial Actions Would Be Required. All Things Would Quietly And Simply Be Set To Rights, For Everyone's Heart And Conscience Would Guide Them.

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.

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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.

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Teaching Is Of More Importance Than Urging.

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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.

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!

This Doctrine (justification) Is The Head And The Cornerstone. It Alone Begets, Nourishes, Builds, Preserves, And Defends The Church Of God And Without It The Church Of God Cannot Exist For One Hour.

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Riches, Understanding, Beauty, Are Fair Gifts Of God.

Remove Christ From The Scriptures And There Is Nothing Left.

Reason Is The Greatest Enemy That Faith Has; It Never Comes To The Aid Of Spiritual Things, But More Frequently Than Not Struggles Against The Divine Word, Treating With Contempt All That Emanates From God.

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.

Good News From Heaven The Angels Bring, Glad Tidings To The Earth They Sing: To Us This Day A Child Is Given, To Crown Us With The Joy Of Heaven.

If Any Man Doth Ascribe Of Salvation, Even The Very Least, To The Free Will Of Man, He Knoweth Nothing Of Grace, And He Hath Not Learnt Jesus Christ Aright.

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.

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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.

My Conscience Is Captive To The Word Of God

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Heretics Cannot Themselves Appear Good Unless They Depict The Church As Evil, False, And Mendacious. They Alone Wish To Be Esteemed As The Good, But The Church Must Be Made To Appear Evil In Every Respect.

If The Earth Is Fit For Laughter Then Surely Heaven Is Filled With It. Heaven Is The Birthplace Of Laughter.

A Dairymaid Can Milk Cows To The Glory Of God

If Anyone Could Have Gained Heaven As A Monk, Then I Would Indeed Have Been Among Them.

I Should Have No Compassion On These Witches; I Should Burn Them All.

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

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

I Have Such Hatred Of Divorce That I Prefer Bigamy To Divorce. Anyway, I Think We Should See Other People.

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

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.

People Give Ear To An Upstart Astrologer [copernicus]...this Fool Wishes To Reverse The Entire Science Of Astronomy

My Counsel Is, That We Draw Water From The True Source And Fountain, That Is, That We Diligently Search The Scriptures. He Who Wholly Possesses The Text Of The Bible, Is A Consummate Divine.

When Schools Flourish, All Flourishes.

Christianity Can Be Summed Up In The Two Terms Faith And Love...receiving From Above [faith] And Giving Out Below [love].

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.

It Is Impossible For One Man Both To Labor Day And Night To Get A Living, And At The Same Time Give Himself To The Study Of Sacred Learning As The Preaching Office Requires.

Whoever Teaches Differently From What I Have Taught, Or Whoever Condemns Me Therein, He Condemns God And Must Remain A Child Of Hell.

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.

If You Young Fellows Were Wise, The Devil Couldn't Do Anything To You, But Since You Aren't Wise, You Need Us Who Are Old.

We Ought Not To Criticize, Explain, Or Judge The Scriptures By Our Mere Reason, But Diligently, With Prayer, Meditate Thereon, And Seek Their Meaning.

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.

Lord God...use Me As Your Instrument -- But Do Not Forsake Me, For If Ever I Should Be On My Own, I Would Easily Wreck It All.

Antichrist Is The Pope And The Turk [muslim] Together. A Beast Full Of Life Must Have A Body And Soul. The Spirit Or Soul Of Antichrist Is The Pope, His Flesh Or Body The Turk.

Be A Sinner And Sin Boldly, But Believe And Rejoice In Christ Even More Boldly.

There Is No Wisdom Save In Truth. Truth Is Everlasting, But Our Ideas About Truth Are Changeable. Only A Little Of The First Fruits Of Wisdom, Only A Few Fragments Of The Boundless Heights, Breadths And Depths Of Truth, Have I Been Able To Gather.

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

Faith Is A Living, Daring Confidence In God's Grace, So Sure And Certain That The Believer Would Stake His Life On It A Thousand Times.

Peter Erred In Life And In Doctrine. Paul Might Have Dismissed Peter's Error As A Matter Of No Consequence. But Paul Saw That Peter's Error Would Lead To The Damage Of The Whole Church Unless It Were Corrected. Therefore He Withstood Peter To His Face. The Church, Peter, The Apostles, Angels From Heaven, Are Not To Be Heard Unless They Teach The Genuine Word Of God.

If I Did Not See That The Lord Kept Watch Over The Ship, I Should Long Since Have Abandoned The Helm. But I See Him! - Through The Storm, Strengthening The Tackling, Handling The Yards, Spreading The Sails - Yes More, Commanding The Very Winds! Should I Not Be A Coward If I Abandoned My Post? Let Him Govern, Let Him Carry Us Forward, Let Him Hasten Or Delay; We Will Fear Nothing!

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

Faith Is The Yes Of The Heart.

To Be A Christian, You Must Pluck Out The Eye Of Reason.

Also When It Is A Case Of Only Upholding Some Spiritual Tenet, Such As Infant Baptism, Original Sin, And Unnecessary Separation, Then . . . We Conclude That . . . The Stubborn Sectaries Must Be Put To Death.

God Is Entirely And Personally Present In The Wilderness, In The Garden, In The Field.

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.

The Cross Alone Is Our Theology.

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.

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.

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

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

The Man Who Has The Will To Undergo All Labor May Win To Any Good.

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.

And I Myself, In Rome, Heard It Said Openly In The Streets, "if There Is A Hell, Then Rome Is Built On It.

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

Mankind Has A Free Will; But It Is Free To Milk Cows And To Build Houses, Nothing More.

It Is A Tremendously Hard Thing To Pray Aright, Yea, It Is Verily The Science Of All Sciences.

You Have As Much Laughter As You Have Faith.

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.

All Our Experience With History Should Teach Us, When We Look Back, How Badly Human Wisdom Is Betrayed When It Relies On Itself

Many Of The Ugly Pages Of American History Have Been Obscured And Forgotten

Every Occupation Has Its Own Honor Before God. Ordinary Work Is A Divine Vocation Or Calling. In Our Daily Work No Matter How Important Or Mundane We Serve God By Serving The Neighbor And We Also Participate In God's On-going Providence For The Human Race.

Holy Christendom Has, In My Judgment, No Better Teacher After The Apostles Than St. Augustine.

Women Should Remain At Home, Sit Still, And Bear Children.

A Happy Fart Never Comes From A Miserable Ass.

Here I Stand; I Can Do No Other.

To Have Peace And Love In Marriage Is A Gift Which Is Next To The Knowledge Of The Gospel.

When I Was A Child There Were Many Witches, And They Bewitched Both Cattle And Men, Especially Children.

There Is No Wisdom Save In Truth.

A Lie Is Like A Snow-ball; The Longer It Is Rolled, The Larger It Is.

Every Evening Brings Us Nearer God.

If The Peasants Are In Open Rebellion, Then They Are Outside The Law Of God. Therefore Let All Who Are Able Slash, Strike Down, And Kill (those Who Rebel) Openly And Secretly, Remembering That There Can Be Nothing More Venomous, Harmful, Or Devilish Than A Rebel. It Is Exactly Like Killing A Mad Dog.

Those Who Lapse From The Gospel To The Law Are No Better Off Than Those Who Lapse From Grace To Idolatry.

I Feel Much Freer Now That I Am Certain The Pope Is The Antichrist.

Your God Is Altogether Too Human.

Faith Must Trample Under Foot All Reason, Sense, And Understanding.

The Hair Is The Finest Ornament Women Have. Of Old, Virgins Used To Wear It Loose, Except When They Were In Mourning.

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.

The State Of Matrimony Is The Chief In The World After Religion; But People Shun It Because Of Its Inconveniences, Like One Who, Running Out Of The Rain, Falls Into The River.

Marriage Is A Civic Matter. It Is Really Not, Together With All Its Circumstances, The Business Of The Church.

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

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

If I Had To Refute All The Other Articles Of The Jewish Faith, I Should Be Obliged To Write Against Them As Much And For As Long A Time As They Have Used For Inventing Their Lies - That Is, Longer Than Two Thousand Years.

Angels Are Our True And Trusty Servants, Performing Offices And Works That One Poor Miserable Mendicant Would Be Ashamed To Do For Another.

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

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.

In A Delightful Garden, Sowing, Planting Or Digging Are Not Hardship But Are Done With A Zeal And A Certain Pleasure.

The Devil Won't Stay Where There Is Music.

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.

It Is Not I That Smite, Stab, And Slay, But God And My Prince, For My Hand And My Body Are Now Their Servants.

A Woman Has No Control Over Herself.

He Who Loses Sight Of The Word Of God, Falls Into Despair; The Voice Of Heaven No Longer Sustains Him; He Follows Only The Disorderly Tendency Of His Heart.

...hope Endures And Overcomes Misfortune And Evil.

When Our Lord And Master Jesus Christ Said, 'repent,' He Willed The Entire Life Of Believers To Be One Of Repentance.

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

The Gospel Cannot Be Truly Preached Without Offense And Tumult.

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

You See Then, That Diatribe Truly Possesses A Free Choice In Her Handling Of Scriptures, So That Words Of One And The Same Type Are For Her Obliged To Prove Endeavor In One Place And Freedom In Another, Exactly As She Pleases.

The Clergy Is The Greatest Hindrance To Faith.

We Need To Pledge Ourselves Anew To The Cause Of Christ. We Must Capture The Spirit Of The Early Church. Wherever The Early Christians Went, They Made A Triumphant Witness For Christ. Whether On The Village Streets Or In The City Jails, They Daringly Proclaimed The Good News Of The Gospel.

Obedience Is The Crown And Honour Of All Virtue.

I'll Trust In God's Unchanging Word, Till Soul And Body Sever. For Though All Things Pass Away, His Word Shall Stand Forever.

Rough, Boisterous, Stormy And Altogether Warlike, I Am Born To Fight Against Innumerable Monsters And Devils.

I've Got So Much Work To Do Today, I'd Better Spend Two Hours In Prayer Instead Of One.

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!

Whoever Does Not Know God Hidden In Suffering Does Not Know God At All.

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.

The Prosperity Of A Country Depends, Not On The Abundance Of Its Revenues, Nor On The Strength Of Its Fortifications, Nor On The Beauty Of Its Public Buildings; But It Consists In The Number Of Its Cultivated Citizens, In Its Men Of Education, Enlightenment And Character.

The Two Chief Things Are Faith And Love. Faith Receives The Good; Love Gives The Good. Faith Offers Us God As Our Own; Love Gives Us To Our Neighbor As His Own.

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.

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.

Oh! How Great And Glorious A Thing It Is To Have Before One The Word Of God! With That We May At All Times Feel Joyous And Secure; We Need Never Be In Want Of Consolation, For We See Before Us, In All Its Brightness, The Pure And Right Way.

Whenever I Have Prayed Earnestly, I Have Always Received More Than I Asked For. God May Delay, But He Always Comes.

A Christian Has No Need Of Any Law In Order To Be Saved, Since Through Faith We Are Free From Every Law. Thus All The Acts Of A Christian Are Done Spontaneously, Out Of A Sense Of Pure Liberty.

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.

Two Devils Rose From The Water, And Flew Off Through The Air, Crying, 'oh, Oh, Oh!' And Turning One Over Another, In Sportive Mockery.

Pure Christian Love Is Not Derived From The Merit Of The Object.

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

May The Lord Fill You With His Blessings And With Hatred Of The Pope.

We Should Die Relying On Grace Alone

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.

The Priest Is Not Made. He Must Be Born A Priest; Must Inherit His Office. I Refer To The New Birth-the Birth Of Water And The Spirit. Thus All Christians Must Became Priests, Children Of God And Co-heirs With Christ The Most High Priest.

A Unjust Law, Is No Law At All.

Those Who Turn Proud When Their Praise Is Sounded, Who Seek Their Own Glory, Not Christ's, Or Those Who Are Moved By Slanders And By Infamy, Had Better Leave The Ministry Of The Word.

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.

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

God Creates Out Of Nothing. Therefore, Until A Man Is Nothing, God Can Make Nothing Out Of Him.

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

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