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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.

-Martin Luther

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I [i.e., God] Have

Martin Luther

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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.

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The Quest For Glory Can Never Be Satisfied, It Must Be Extinguished.

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When Schools Flourish, All Flourishes.

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There Is No Gown Or Garment That Worse Becomes A Woman Than When She Will Be Wise.

The Bible Is The Proper Book For Men. There The Truth Is Distinguished From Error Far More Clearly Than Anywhere Else, And One Finds Something New In It Every Day. For Twenty-eight Years, Since I Became A Doctor, I Have Now Constantly Read And Preached The Bible; And Yet I Have Not Exhausted It But Find Something New In It Every Day.

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

The Heart Of Religion Lies In Its Personal Pronouns.

Next To Theology I Give To Music The Highest Place And Honor. And We See How David And All The Saints Have Wrought Their Godly Thoughts Into Verse, Rhyme, And Song.

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

The Bible Is The Cradle Wherein Christ Is Laid.

Christian Inspirational

The Fewer The Words, The Better The Prayer.

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.

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

The Church That Preaches The Gospel In All Of Its Fullness, Except As It Applies To The Great Social Ills Of The Day, Is Failing To Preach The Gospel.

He That Has But One Word Of God Before Him, And Out Of That Word Cannot Make A Sermon, Can Never Be A Preacher.

Christian Life Consists Of Faith And Charity

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

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

The Fruit Does Not Make The Tree Good Or Bad But The Tree Itself Is What Determines The Nature Of The Fruit. In The Same Way, A Person First Must Be Good Or Bad Before Doing A Good Or Bad Work.

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.

The Holy Ghost Has Called Me By The Gospel And Illuminated Me With His Gifts And Sanctified And Preserved Me In The True Faith.

What Is It To Serve God And To Do His Will? Nothing Else Than To Show Mercy To Our Neighbor. For It Is Our Own Neighbor Who Needs Our Service; God In Heaven Needs It Not.

And Though This World With Devils Filled, Should Threaten To Undo Us, We Will Not Fear, For God Hath Willed His Truth To Triumph Through Us.

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

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

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

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.

The Bible Is A Remarkable Fountain: The More One Draws And Drinks Of It, The More It Stimulates Thirst.

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!

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.

If The Gospel Was Of A Nature To Be Propagated Or Maintained By The Power Of The World, God Would Not Have Intrusted It To Fishermen. To Defend The Gospel Appertains Not To The Princes And Pontiffs Of This World.

Music Is A Fair And Glorious Gift Of God. I Am Strongly Persuaded That After Theology, There Is No Art Which Can Be Placed On The Level With Music.

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.

Obedience Is The Crown And Honour Of All Virtue.

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

We Cannot Attain To The Understanding Of Scripture Either By Study Or By The Intellect. Your First Duty Is To Begin By Prayer. Entreat The Lord To Grant You, Of His Great Mercy, The True Understanding Of His Word. There Is No Other Interpreter Of The Word Of God Than The Author Of This Word, As He Himself Has Said, "they Shall Be All Taught Of God" (john 6:45). Hope For Nothing From Your Own Labors, From Your Own Understanding: Trust Solely In God, And In The Influence Of His Spirit. Believe This On The Word Of A Man Who Has Experience.

The Irony Is I Stopped Going To Church A Few Weeks Later.

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Wer Nicht Liebt Wein,weib Und Gesang, Der Bleibt Ein Narr Sein Leben Lang. Who Loves Not Woman, Wine And Song Remains A Fool His Whole Life Long.

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

When God Works In Us, The Will, Being Changed And Sweetly Breathed Upon By The Spirit Of God, Desires And Acts, Not From Compulsion, But Responsively.

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

Look To It That You Do Not Try To Do All Of It, Do Not Try To Do Too Much, Lest Your Spirit Grow Weary. Besides, A Good Prayer Mustn't Be Too Long. Do Not Draw It Out. Prayer Ought To Be Frequent And Fervent.

If You See Yourself As A "little Sinner" You Will Inevitably See Jesus As A "little Savior".

Let Whatsoever Will Or Can Befall Me, I Will Surely Cleave By My Sweet Savior Christ Jesus, For In Him Am I Baptized; I Can Neither Do Nor Know Anything But Only What He Has Taught Me.

God Created Adam Master And Lord Of Living Creatures, But Eve Spoilt All, When She Persuaded Him To Set Himself Above God's Will. 'tis You Women, With Your Tricks And Artifices, That Lead Men Into Error.

You Are Not Only Responsible For What You Say, But Also For What You Do Not Say

Inspirational Kindness

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.

We Do Not Become Righteous By Doing Righteous Deed But, Having Been Made Righteous, We Do Righteous Deeds.

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.

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

If Any Earthly Institution Or Custom Conflicts With God's Will, It Is Your Christian Duty To Oppose It. You Must Never Allow The Transitory, Evanescent Demands Of Man-made Institutions To Take Precedence Over The Eternal Demands Of The Almighty God.

Forgive Us Our Trespasses As We Forgive Them That Trespass Against Us.

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.

So Great Are The Effectiveness And Power Of The Word Of God That The More It Is Persecuted The More It Flourishes And Grows.

Thought Provoking

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

Your Thoughts Of God Are Too Human

There Is No More Lovely, Friendly And Charming Relationship, Communion Or Company Than A Good Marriage.

Teaching Is Of More Importance Than Urging.

To Worship God In Spirit Is The Service And Homage Of The Heart, And Implies Fear Of God And Trust In Him.

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

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

God May Delay, But He Always Comes.

Oh, What Thoughts Man Might Have Had About The Fact That God Is In All Creatures, And So Might Have Reflected On The Power And The Wisdom Of God In Even The Smallest Flowers!

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

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

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

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

Whatever You Love Most, That Is Your God.

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