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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.

-Martin Luther

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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.

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

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.

The Clergy Is The Greatest Hindrance To Faith.

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.

The Fool Will Upset The Whole Science Of Astronomy.

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.

What Harm Would It Do, If A Man Told A Good Strong Lie For The Sake Of The Good And For The Christian Church ... A Lie Out Of Necessity, A Useful Lie, A Helpful Lie, Such Lies Would Not Be Against God, He Would Accept Them.

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

A Penny Saved Is Of More Value Than A Penny Paid Out.

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!

A Christian Is Free And Independent In Every Respect, A Bond Servant To None. A Christian Is A Dutiful Servant In Every Respect, Owing A Duty To Everyone.

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.

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.

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.

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

Resurrection Of Jesus Christ

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.

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.

Whatever You Love Most, That Is Your God.

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.

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.

But The Power Of God Cannot Be So Determined And Measured, For It Is Uncircumscribed And Immeasurable, Beyond And Above All That Is Or May Be. On The Other Hand, It Must Be Essentially Present At All Places, Even In The Tiniest Tree Leaf.

I Cannot Forbid A Person To Marry Several Wives, For It Does Not Contradict Scripture.

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

Thoughts Are Not Subject To Duty.

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 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.

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.

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

The Holy Ghost Is Not A Sceptic, And He Has Not Inscribed In Our Hearts Uncertain Opinions, But, Rather, Affirmations Of The Strongest Sorts.

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

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!

Whenever The Word Is Rightly Preached, And Attentively Heard, It Never Fails To Bring Forth Fruit.

Faith Is Under The Left Nipple.

Whoever Sees Christ As A Mirror Of The Father's Heart, Actually Walks Through The World With New Eyes.

When God Contemplates Some Great Work, He Begins It By The Hand Of Some Poor, Weak, Human Creature, To Whom He Afterwards Gives Aid.

I Have Lived To See The Greatest Plague On Earth -- The Condemning Of God's Word, A Fearful Thing, Surpassing All Other Plagues In The World; For Thereupon Most Surely Follow All Manner Of Punishments, Eternal And Corporal.

Faith, Like Light, Should Always Be Simple And Unbending; While Love, Like Warmth, Should Beam Forth On Every Side, And Bend To Every Necessity Of Our Brethren.

If There Is Anything In Us, It Is Not Our Own; It Is A Gift Of God. But If It Is A Gift Of God, Then It Is Entirely A Debt One Owes To Love, That Is, To The Law Of Christ. And If It Is A Debt Owed To Love, Then I Must Serve Others With It, Not Myself.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The Mystery Of The Humanity Of Christ, That He Sunk Himself Into Our Flesh, Is Beyond All Human Understanding.

All Of A Christian's Life Is One Of Repentance.

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.

There Is No Wisdom Save In Truth.

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.

When Some Say That Good Works Are Forbidden When We Preach Faith Alone, It Is As If I Said To A Sick Man: "if You Had Health, You Would Have The Use Of All Your Limbs; But Without Health, The Works Of All Your Limbs Are Nothing"; And He Wanted To Infer That I Had Forbidden The Works Of All His Limbs.

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.

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

As Is The Business Of Tailors To Make Clothes And Cobblers To Make Shoes, So It Is The Business Of Christians To Pray.

Faith Looks To The Word And The Promise; That Is, To The Truth. But Hope Looks To That Which The Word Has Promised, To The Gift .

The Hair Is The Richest Ornament Of Women.

The Bible Is The Cradle Wherein Christ Is Laid.

Christian Inspirational

God Has Set The Type Of Marriage Through Creation. Each Creature Seeks Its Perfection In Another.

Whatever Man Loves, That Is His God. For He Carries It In His Heart; He Goes About With It Night And Day; He Sleeps And Wakes With It, Be It What It May - Wealth Or Self, Pleasure Or Renown.

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.

Pray, And Let God Worry.

In Truth You Cannot Read Too Much In Scripture; And What You Read You Cannot Read Too Carefully, And What You Read Carefully You Cannot Understand Too Well, And What You Understand Well You Cannot Teach Too Well, And What You Teach Well You Cannot Live Too Well.

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.

First I Shake The Whole Apple Tree, That The Ripest Might Fall. Then I Climb The Tree And Shake Each Limb, And Then Each Branch And Then Each Twig, And Then I Look Under Each Leaf.

Let Us Not Flutter Too High, But Remain By The Manger And The Swaddling Clothes Of Christ, 'in Whom Dwelleth All The Fullness Of The Godhead Bodily.'

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.

Unless I Am Convicted By Scripture And Plain Reason-i Do Not Accept The Authority Of Popes And Councils, For They Have Contradicted Each Other-my Conscience Is Captive To The Word Of God. I Cannot And Will Not Recant Anything, For To Go Against Conscience Is Neither Right Nor Safe. Here I Stand, I Cannot Do Otherwise. God Help Me. Amen.

Each Betrayal Begins With Trust.

Betraying Friends

Many Sweat To Reconcile St Paul And St James, But In Vain. 'faith Justifies' And 'faith Does Not Justify' Contradict Each Other Flatly. If Any One Can Harmonize Them I Will Give Him My Doctor's Hood And Let Him Call Me A Fool.

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

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.

The Devil Is God's Ape!

Many Pass For Saints On Earth Whose Souls Are In Hell.

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

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

Medicine Makes People Ill, Mathematics Make Them Sad And Theology Makes Them Sinful.

Unthankfulness Is Theft.

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.

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

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

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

Preaching The Gospel

Christ Is The Master; The Scriptures Are Only The Servant. The True Way To Test All The Books Is To See Whether They Work The Will Of Christ Or Not. No Book Which Does Not Preach Christ Can Be Apostolic, Though Peter Or Paul Were Its Author. And No Book Which Does Preach Christ Can Fail To Be Apostolic, Although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, Or Herod Were Its Author.

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.

The Word And Works Of God Is Quite Clear, That Women Were Made Either To Be Wives Or Prostitutes.

Christian Women

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.

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.

Even If All The World Were To Combine Forces, They Could Not Bring About The Conception Of A Single Child In Any Woman's Womb Nor Cause It To Be Born; That Is Wholly The Work Of God.

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

[christ's] Mission And Work It Is To Help Against Sin And Death, To Justify And Bring Life. He Has Placed His Help In Baptism And The Sacrament [i.e., Communion/eucharist/lord's Supper], And Incorporated It In The Word And Preaching. To Our Eyes Baptism [capitalized In Original] Appears To Be Nothing More Than Ordinary Water, And The Sacrament Of Christ's Body And Blood Simple Bread And Wine, Like Other Bread And Wine, And The Sermon, Hot Air From A Man's Mouth. But We Must Not Trust What Our Eyes See.

The Devil Flees Before The Sound Of Music Almost As Much As Before The Word Of God.

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

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.

When I Am Angry I Can Write, Pray, And Preach Well, For Then My Whole Temperament Is Quickened, My Understanding Sharpened, And All Mundane Vexations And Temptations Depart.

Animals Are Footprints Of God.

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.

Those Speak Foolishly Who Ascribe Their Anger Or Their Impatience To Such As Offend Them Or To Tribulation. Tribulation Does Not Make People Impatient, But Proves That They Are Impatient. So Everyone May Learn From Tribulation How His Heart Is Constituted.

Faith Is A Free Surrenderand A Joyous Wager On The Unseen, Unknown, Untested Goodness Of God.

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

A Penny Saved Is Better Than A Penny Earned.

Blessed Is He Who Submits To The Will Of God; He Can Never Be Unhappy.

We Find No Rest For Our Weary Bones Unless We Cling To The Word Of Grace.

Isaiah Calls The Church Barren Because Her Children Are Born Without Effort By The Word Of Faith Through The Spirit Of God. It Is A Matter Of Birth, Not Of Exertion.

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.

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

All We Who Believe On Christ Are Kings And Priests In Christ.

Wealth Is The Smallest Thing On Earth, The Least Gift That God Has Bestowed On Mankind.

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!

When My Heart Is Cold And I Cannot Pray As I Should I Scourge Myself With The Thought Of The Impiety And Ingratitude Of My Enemies, The Pope And His Accomplices And Vermin, And Zwingli, So That My Heart Swells With The Righteous Indignation And Hatred And I Can Say With Warmth And Vehemence: 'holy Be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done!' And The Hotter I Grow The More Ardent Do My Prayers Become.

Count It One Of The Highest Virtues Upon Earth To Educate Faithfully The Children Of Others, Which So Few, And Scarcely Any, Do By Their Own.

Know That No One Can Have Indulged In The Holy Writers Sufficiently, Unless He Has Governed Churches For A Hundred Years With The Prophets, Such As Elijah And Elisha, John The Baptist, Christ And The Apostles... We Are Beggars: This Is True.

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.

I More Fear What Is Within Me Than What Comes From Without.

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

Faith Does Not Inquire Whether There Are Good Works To Be Done, But Even Before Asking Questions, Faith Has Done The Works Already.

Asking Questions

Spare The Rod And Spoil The Child - That Is True. But, Beside The Rod, Keep An Apple To Give Him When He Has Done Well.

Poverty Hath Slain A Thousand, But Riches Have Slain Ten Thousand. They Are Very Uncertain, They Promise That Which They Cannot Perform, Neither Can They Afford A Contented Mind.

Christ Sayeth Not, Abstain From The Flesh, From Marrying, From Housekeeping, Etc., As The Papists Teach, For That Were Even To Invite The Devil And All His Fellows To A Feast.

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

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

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

We Come To The New Testament, Where Again A Host Of Imperative Verbs Is Mustered In Support Of That Miserable Bondage Of Free-choice, And The Aid Of Carnal Reason With Her Inferences And Similes Is Called In, Just As In A Picture Or A Dream You Might See The King Of The Flies With His Lances Of Straw And Shields Of Hay Arrayed Against A Real And Regular Army Of Seasoned Human Troops. That Is How The Human Dreams Of Diatribe Go To War With The Battalions Of Divine Words.

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

All Who Call On God In True Faith, Earnestly From The Heart, Will Certainly Be Heard, And Will Receive What They Have Asked And Desired.

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.

Faith Is The 'yes' Of The Heart, A Conviction On Which One Stakes One's Life.

Merit Is A Work For The Sake Of Which Christ Gives Rewards. But No Such Work Is To Be Found, For Christ Gives By Promise. Just As If A Prince Should Say To Me, "come To Me In My Castle, And I Will Give You A Hundred Florins." I Do A Work, Certainly, In Going To The Castle, But The Gift Is Not Given Me As The Reward Of My Work In Going, But Because The Prince Promised It To Me.

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

Jesus Christ Never Died For Our Good Works. They Were Not Worth Dying For. But He Gave Himself For Our Sins, According To The Scriptures.

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.

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

The Heart Overflows With Gladness, And Leaps And Dances For The Joy It Has Found In God. In This Experience The Holy Spirit Is Active, And Has Taught Us In The Flash Of A Moment The Deep Secret Of Joy. You Will Have As Much Joy And Laughter In Life As You Have Faith In God.

Our Loving God Wills That We Eat, Drink And Be Merry.

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.

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.

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

Faith Is A Living, Daring, Confidence In God's Grace.

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

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

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

I Put The Scriptures Above All The Sayings Of The Fathers, Angels, Men And Devils. Here I Take My Stand.

Sheep, Cattle, Men-servants Were All Possessions To Be Sold As It Pleased Their Masters. It Were A Good Thing Were It Still So. For Else No Man May Compel Nor Tame The Servile Folk.

For That Purpose Christ Instituted Holy Baptism, Thereby To Clothe You With His Righteousness. It Is Tantamount To His Saying, My Righteousness Shall Be Your Righteousness; My Innocence, Your Innocence. Your Sins Indeed Are Great, But By Baptism I Bestow On You My Righteousness; I Strip Death From You And Clothe You With My Life.

The Devil Won't Stay Where There Is Music.

Sin Cannot Tear You Away From Him [christ] Even Though You Commit Adultery A Hundred Times A Day And Commit As Many Murders.

The Conscience Is Eternal And Never Dies. Peace If Possible, But Truth At Any Rate.

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.

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.

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

Justice Is A Temporary Thing That Must At Last Come To An End; But The Conscience Is Eternal And Will Never Die.

The Inner Man Cannot Be Forced To Do Out Of His Own Free Will, What He Should Do, Except The Grace Of God Change The Heart And Make It Willing.

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

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.

[it Is] Essentially Wholesome And Necessary, For A Christian To Know, Whether Or Not The Will Does Any Thing In Those Things Which Pertain Unto Salvation. Nay, Let Me Tell You, This Is The Very Hinge Upon Which Our Discussion Turns. It Is The Very Heart Of The Subject

If A Man Serves Not God Only, Then Surely He Serves The Devil.

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

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

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.

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

When The Scripture Speaks, God Speaks

Man Is Man Because He Is Free To Operate Within A Framework Of His Destiny. He Is Free To Deliberate, To Make Decisions, And To Choose Between Alternatives. He Is Distinguished From Animals By His Freedom To Do Evil Or To Do Good And To Walk The High Road Of Beauty Or Tread The Low Road Of Ugly Degeneracy.

Prayer Is Not Overcoming God's Reluctance. It Is Laying Hold Of His Willingness.

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

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.

The Law Is For The Proud And The Gospel For The Brokenhearted.

I Admit That I Deserve Death And Hell, What Of It? For I Know One Who Suffered And Made Satisfaction On My Behalf. His Name Is Jesus Christ, Son Of God, And Where He Is There I Shall Be Also!

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.

Let The Wife Make The Husband Glad To Come Home, And Let Him Make Her Sorry To See Him Leave.

The Fact That The Biblical Book Hebrews Is Not An Epistle Of St Paul, Or Of Any Other Apostle, Is Proved By What It Says In Chapter Two.

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.

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

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.

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.

Christ Took Our Sins And The Sins Of The Whole World As Well As The Father's Wrath On His Shoulders, And He Has Drowned Them Both In Himself So That We Are Thereby Reconciled To God And Become Completely Righteous.

To Progress Is Always To Begin Always To Begin Again

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

On Coming To The House, They (the Magi), Saw The Child With His Mother Mary, And They Bowed Down And Worshiped Him. (matthew 2:11) [this] Adoration, Too, Was Not The Same As The Worship Of God. In My Opinion They Did Not Yet Recognize Him As God, But They Acted In Keeping With The Custom Mentioned In Scripture, According To Which Kings And Important People Were Worshiped; This Did Not Mean More Than Falling Down Before Them At Their Feet And Honoring Them.

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.

It Is Cheering To Note That [martin] Luther (1524) Did Not See Why Schools Should Not Be Fun As Well: "now Since The Young Must Leap And Jump, Or Have Something To Do, Because They Have A Natural Desire For It Which Should Not Be Restrained (for It Is Not Well To Check Them In Everything) Why Should We Not Provide For Them Such Schools, And Lay Before Them Such Studies?

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

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.

We Must Not Regard What Or How The World Esteems Us, So We Have The Word Pure, And Are Certain Of Our Doctrine.

One Learns More Of Christ In Being Married And Rearing Children Than In Several Lifetimes Spent In Study In A Monastery.

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.

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

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.

In Romans 7, St. Paul Says, "the Law Is Spiritual." What Does That Mean? If The Law Were Physical, Then It Could Be Satisfied By Works, But Since It Is Spiritual, No One Can Satisfy It Unless Everything He Does Springs From The Depths Of The Heart. But No One Can Give Such A Heart Except The Spirit Of God, Who Makes The Person Be Like The Law, So That He Actually Conceives A Heartfelt Longing For The Law And Henceforward Does Everything, Not Through Fear Or Coercion, But From A Free Heart.

Someone Asked Luther, "do You Feel That You've Been Forgiven?" He Answered, "no, But I'm As Sure As There's A God In Heaven!"

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Authority Of Scripture Is Greater Than The Comprehension Of The Whole Of Man's Reason.

Your God Is Altogether Too Human.

O, This Faith Is A Living, Busy, Active, Powerful Thing! It Is Impossible That It Should Not Be Ceaselessly Doing That Which Is Good. It Does Not Even Ask Whether Good Works Should Be Done; But Before The Question Can Be Asked, It Has Done Them, And It Is Constantly Engaged In Doing Them. But He Who Does Not Do Such Works, Is A Man Without Faith. He Gropes And Casts About Him To Find Faith And Good Works, Not Knowing What Either Of Them Is, And Yet Prattles And Idly Multiplies Words About Faith And Good Works.

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.

Pray Like It All Depends On God, Then When You Are Done, Go Work Like It All Depends On You.

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

To Comfort A Sorrowful Conscience Is Much Better Than To Possess Many Kngdoms; Yet The World Regards It Not; Nay, Condemns It, Calling Us Rebels, Dissturbers Of The Peace.

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