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If You Preach The Gospel In All Aspects With The Exception Of The Issues Which Deal Specifically With Your Time, You Are Not Preaching The Gospel At All.

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If You Preach The Gospel In All Aspects With The Exception Of The Issues Which Deal Specifically With Your Time, You Are Not Preaching The Gospel At All.

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It Seems To Me That The Most Delightful Walk Of Life Is To Be Found In A Household Of Moderate Means, To Live There With An Obliging Spouse And To Be Satisfied With Little.

I Have Grounded My Preaching Upon The Literal Word; He That Pleases May Follow Me; He That Will Not May Stay.

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

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.

Christian Living Does Not Mean To Be Good But To Become Good; Not To Be Well, But To Get Well; Not Being But Becoming; Nor Rest But Training. We Are Not Yet, But We Shall Be. It Has Not Yet Happened, But It Is The Way. Not Everything Shines And Sparkles As Yet, But Everything Is Getting Better.

The Organ In The Worship Service Is A Sign Of Baal.

Worship Service

Every Country Must Have Its Own Devil. Welshland Its Own, And France Its Own. Our German Devil Will Be A Good Wind-pipe, And Must Be Called Drinking, Being So Thirsty And Hell-like That No Guzzling Of Wine And Beer, However Large, Will Cool It Off, And I Fear That Such Will Ever Remain Germany's Plague, Until The Day Of Judgment.

Some People Need A Fig-leaf On Their Mouths.

The Devil Is God's Ape!

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.

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

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

When I Was Abandoned By Everybody, In My Greatest Weakness, Trembling And Afraid Of Death, When I Was Persecuted By This Wicked World, Then I Often Felt Most Surely The Divine Power In This Name, Jesus Christ... So, By God's Grace, I Will Live And Die For That Name.

Being By His Faith Replaced Afresh In Paradise And Created Anew, He (the Believer)does Not Need Works For His Justification, But That He May Not Be Idle, But That He May Exercise His Own Body And Preserve It. His Works Are To Be Done Freely, With The Sole Object Of Pleasing God.

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

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.

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

In Ourselves, We Are Sinners, And Yet Through Faith We Are Righteous By The Imputation Of God. For We Trust Him Who Promises To Deliver Us, And In The Meantime Struggle So That Sin May Not Overwhelm Us, But That We May Stand Up To It Until He Finally Take It Away From Us.

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

The Hair Is The Richest Ornament Of Women.

Thoughts Are Not Subject To Duty.

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.

Singing Has Nothing To Do With The Affairs Of This World: It Is Not For The Law. Singers Are Merry, And Free From Sorrows And Cares.

Every Week I Preach Justification By Faith To My People, Because Every Week They Forget It.

A Simple Layman Armed With Scripture Is Greater Than The Mightiest Pope Without It

Sin Is Essentially A Departure From 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.

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.

I'd Rather See Heaven Crash From The Skies Than One Grain Of God's Truth Die.

Truly Speech Has Wonderful Strength And Power, That Through A Mere Word, Proceeding Out Of The Mouth Of A Poor Human Creature, The Devil, That So Proud And Powerful Spirit, Should Be Driven Away, Shamed And Confounded.

What Man, If He Were God, Would Humble Himself To Lie In The Feedbox Of A Donkey Or To Hang Upon A Cross?

The Will Of Man Without Grace Is Not Free, But Is Enslaved, And That Too With Its Own Consent.

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.

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

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

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.

The God Of This World Is Riches, Pleasure And Pride.

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

Thus My Learning Is Not My Own; It Belongs To The Unlearned And Is The Debt I Owe Themmy Wisdom Belongs To The Foolish, My Power To The Oppressed. Thus My Wealth Belongs To The Poor, My Righteousness To The Sinners.

A Fiery Shield Is God's Word; Of More Substance And Purer Than Gold, Which, Tried In The Fire, Loses Nought Of Its Substance, But Resists And Overcomes All The Fury Of The Fiery Heat; Even So, He That Believes God's Word Overcomes All, And Remains Secure Everlastingly, Against All Misfortunes; For This Shield Fears Nothing, Neither Hell Nor The Devil.

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.

For Some Years Now I Have Read Through The Bible Twice Every Year. If You Picture The Bible To Be A Mighty Tree And Every Word A Little Branch, I Have Shaken Every One Of These Branches Because I Wanted To Know What It Was And What It Meant.

The First Care Of Every Christian Ought To Be To Lay Aside All Reliance On Works, And Strengthen His Faith Alone More And More, And By It Grow In The Knowledge, Not Of Works, But Of Christ Jesus, Who Has Suffered And Risen Again For Him.

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.

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

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

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!"

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.

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

But Then Eject Them Forever From This Country. For, As We Have Heard, God's Anger With Them Is So Intense That Gentle Mercy Will Only Tend To Make Them Worse And Worse, While Sharp Mercy Will Reform Them But Little. Therefore, In Any Case, Away With Them!

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.

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

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

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.

My Dear Pope, I Will Kiss Your Feet And Acknowledge You As Supreme Bishop If You Will Worship My Christ And Grant That Through His Death And Resurrection, Not Through Keeping Your Traditions, We Have Forgiveness Of Sins And Life Eternal.

Acknowledge You

We Are Not To Look Upon Our Sins As Insignificant Trifles. On The Other Hand, We Are Not To Regard Them As So Terrible That We Must Despair. Learn To Believe That Christ Was Given, Not For Picayune And Imaginary Transgressions, But For Mountainous Sins; Not For One Or Two, But For All; Not For Sins That Can Be Discarded, But For Sins That Are Stubbornly Ingrained.

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.

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

This Grace Of God Is A Very Great, Strong, Mighty And Active Thing. It Does Not Lie Asleep In The Soul. Grace Hears, Leads, Drives, Draws, Changes, Works All In Man, And Lets Itself Be Distinctly Felt And Experienced. It Is Hidden, But Its Works Are Evident.

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.

To Be Convinced In Our Hearts That We Have Forgiveness Of Sins And Peace With God By Grace Alone Is The Hardest Thing.

Before Every Great Opportunity God Gave Me A Great Trial.

Great Opportunity

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

Maternity Is A Glorious Thing, Since All Mankind Has Been Conceived, Born, And Nourished Of Women. All Human Laws Should Encourage The Multiplication Of Families.

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!

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

Unthankfulness Is Theft.

He That Will Maintain That Man's Free Will Is Able To Do Or Work Anything In Spiritual Cases, Be They Never So Small, Denies Christ.

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.

We May Search Long To Find Where God Is, But We Shall Find Him In Those Who Keep The Words Of Christ. For The Lord Christ Saith, " If Any Man Love Me, He Will Keep My Words; And We Will Make Our Abode With Him.

We Should Throw The Epistle Of James Out Of This School.

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

I Am Not Of The Opinion That All The Arts Shall Be Crushed To Earth And Perish Through The Gospel, As Some Bigoted Persons Pretend, But Would Willingly See Them All, And Especially Music, Servants Of Him Who Gave And Created Them.

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.

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.

The Devil, It Is True, Is Not Exactly A Doctor Who Has Taken Degrees, But He Is Very Learned, Very Expert For All That. He Has Not Been Carrying On His Business During Thousands Of Years For Nothing.

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.

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.

Science Gives Man Knowledge Which Is Power; Religion Gives Man Wisdom Which Is Control.

Nothing In The World Causes So Much Misery As Uncertainty.

If It Were Art To Overcome Heresy With Fire, The Executioners Would Be The Most Learned Doctors On Earth.

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

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.

Is It Not Wonderful News To Believe That Salvation Lies Outside Ourselves?

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.

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

Justification By Faith

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!

How Rich A God Our God Is! He Gives Enough, But We Don't Notice It. He Gave The Whole World To Adam, But This Was Nothing In Adam's Eyes; He Was Concerned About One Tree And Had To Ask Why God Had Forbidden Him To Eat It.

It Is The Duty Of Every Christian To Be Christ To His Neighbor.

The Holy Spirit Is No Skeptic, & The Things He Has Written In Our Hearts Are Not Doubts Or Opinions, But Assertions - Surer & More Certain Than Sense & Life Itself.

Let The Man Who Would Hear God Speak, Read Holy Scriptures.

Nothing On Earth Is So Well-suited To Make The Sad Merry, The Merry Sad, To Give Courage To The Despairing, To Make The Proud Humble, To Lessen Envy And Hate, As Music.

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.

Of Whom Shall I Be Afraid? One With God Is A Majority.

We Should Die Relying On Grace Alone

Strange, Though I Am Saved From Sin, I Am Not Saved From Sinning.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Either God Must Be Unjust, Or You, Jews, Wicked And Ungodly. You Have Been, About Fifteen Hundred Years, A Race Rejected Of God.

The Christian Gospel Is A Two-way Road. On The One Hand, It Seeks To Change The Souls Of Men, And Thereby Unite Them With God; On The Other Hand, It Seeks To Change The Environmental Conditions Of Men So The Soul Will Have A Chance After It Is Changed.

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

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.

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.

The Devil Won't Stay Where There Is Music.

A Man Must Be Able To Affirm, I Know For Certain, That What I Teach Is The Only Word Of The High Majesty Of God In Heaven, His Final Conclusion And Everlasting, Unchangeable Truth, And Whatsoever Concurs And Agrees Not With This Doctrine, Is Altogether False, And Spun By The Devil.

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.

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

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

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.

One Drop Of Christ's Blood Is Worth More Than Heaven And Earth.

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

To Pray Well Is The Better Half Of Study.

Prayer, Study, And Suffering Make A Pastor.

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.

Either Sin Is With You, Lying On Your Shoulders, Or It Is Lying On Christ, The Lamb Of God. Now If It Is Lying On Your Back, You Are Lost; But If It Is Resting On Christ, You Are Free, And You Will Be Saved. Now Choose What You Want.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I Must Remain A Child And Pupil Of The Catechism, And Am Glad So To Remain.

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.

Not Only The Words (vocabula) Which The Holy Spirit And Scripture Use Are Divine, But Also The Phrasing

[our] Plan Is To Follow The Example Of The Prophets And The Ancient Fathers Of The Church, And To Compose Psalms...so That The Word Of God May Be Among The People Also In The Form Of Music.

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

Procrastination

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When Questioned Whether The Blessed Will Not Be Saddened By Seeing Their Nearest And Dearest Tortured Answers, "not In The Least."

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

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

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.

True Faith Will No More Fail To Produce [good Works] Than The Sun Can Cease To Give Light.

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.

There Is No Wisdom Save In Truth.

Daily There Have To Be Many Troubles And Trials In Every House, City, And Country. No Station In Life Is Free Of Suffering And Pain, Both From Your Own, Like Your Wife Or Children Or Household Help Or Subjects, And From The Outside, From Your Neighbors And All Sorts Of Accidental Trouble.

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

Inspirational Kindness

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

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.

When One Is Possessed With Doubt, That Though He Call Upon The Lord He Cannot Be Heard, And That God Has Turned Him Heart From Him, And Is Angry ... He Must Arm Himself With God's Word, Promising To Hear Him.

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.

Take Away The Mass, Destroy The Church.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

However, They Have Not Acquired A Perfect Mastery Of The Art Of Lying; They Lie So Clumsily And Ineptly That Anyone Who Is Just A Little Observant Can Easily Detect It. But For Us Christians They Stand As A Terrifying Example Of God's Wrath.

If Church History Teaches Us Anything, It Is That We Cannot Afford To Be A Vacillating Church. We Minister To A People Who Are In Great Need Of Hearing Truth, We Dare Not Make Any Attempt To Soft Pedal That Glorious Truth.

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.

I Have No Pleasure In Any Man Who Despises Music. It Is No Invention Of Ours: It Is A Gift Of God. I Place It Next To Theology. Satan Hates Music: He Knows How It Drives The Evil Spirit Out Of Us.

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.

No Gown Worse Becomes A Woman Than The Desire To Be Wise.

No Other God Have I But Thee, Born In A Manger, Died On A Tree.

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

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

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!

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

God Is Not Hostile To Sinners, But Only To Unbelievers.

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

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.

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

Let Us Not Lose The Bible, But With Diligence, In Fear And Invocation Of God, Read And Preach It. While That Remains And Flourishes, All Prospers With The State; 'tis Head And Empress Of All Arts And Faculties. Let But Divinity Fall, And I Would Not Give A Straw For The Rest.

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

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

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.

Each Day Of The Holidays Comes Bringing Its Own Gifts. Open Your Heart, Untie The Ribbons, And Enjoy The Contents! Were Earth A Thousand Times As Fair Beset With Gold And Jewels Rare She Yet Were Far Too Poor To Be A Narrow Cradle, Lord, For Thee.

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.

Christians Fight Best On Their Knees. Whatever Good May Be Done Is Done And Brought About By Prayer.

The Fewer The Words, The Better The Prayer.

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.

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

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.

A Simple Man With Scripture Has More Authority Than The Pope Or A Council.

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.

Despair Makes Priests And Friars.

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.

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.

When God Creates Faith In A Man, That Is As Great A Work As If He Created Heaven And Earth All Over Again.

God Does Not Work Salvation For Fictitious Sinners. Be A Sinner And Sin Vigorously... Do Not For A Moment Imagine That This Life Is The Abiding Place Of Justice; Sin Must Be Committed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

But Satan, The God Of All Dissension, Stirreth Up Daily New Sects, And Last Of All (which Of All Other I Should Never Have Foreseen Or Once Suspected) He Hath Raised Up A Sect Of Such As Teach That The Ten Commandments Ought To Be Taken Out Of The Church, And That Men Should Not Be Terrified With The Law, But Gently Exerted By The Preaching Of The Grace Of Christ.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Next To The Word Of God, The Noble Art Of Music Is The Greatest Treasure In The World.

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