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In A Word, The Holy Scripture Is The Highest And Best Of Books, Abounding In Comfort Under All Afflictions And Trials. It Teaches Us To See, To Feel, To Grasp, And To Comprehend Faith, Hope, And Charity, Far Otherwise Than Mere Human Reason Can; And While Evil Oppresses Us, It Teaches How These Virtues Throw Light Upon The Darkness, And How, After This Poor, Miserable Existence Of Ours On Earth, There Is Another And An Eternal Life.

-Martin Luther

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In A Word, The

Martin Luther

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In A Word, The Holy Scripture Is The Highest And Best Of Books, Abounding In Comfort Under All Afflictions And Trials. It Teaches Us To See, To Feel, To Grasp, And To Comprehend Faith, Hope, And Charity, Far Otherwise Than Mere Human Reason Can; And While Evil Oppresses Us, It Teaches How These Virtues Throw Light Upon The Darkness, And How, After This Poor, Miserable Existence Of Ours On Earth, There Is Another And An Eternal Life.

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

I Would Rather Obey Than Work Miracles.

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.

Mary Was Not Only Holy. She Was Also The Mother Of The Lord.

The Confidence And Faith Of The Heart Alone Make Both God And An Idol. If Your Faith And Trust Be Right, Then Is Your God Also True; And, On The Other Hand, If Your Trust Be False And Wrong, Then You Have Not The True God; For These Two Belong Together Faith And God. That Now, I Say, Upon Which You Set Your Heart And Put Your Trust Is Properly Your God.

A Man Would Have To Be An Idiot To Write A Book Of Laws For An Apple Tree Telling It To Bear Apples And Not Thorns, Seeing That The Apple-tree Will Do It Naturally And Far Better Than Any Laws Or Teaching Can Prescribe.

In Our Sad Condition Our Only Consolation Is The Expectancy Of Another Life. Here Below All Is Incomprehensible.

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

God Created The World Out Of Nothing, And So Long As We Are Nothing, He Can Make Something Out Of 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.

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

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.

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

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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.

All Our Work In The Field, In The Garden, In The City, In The Home, In Struggle, In Government-to What Does It All Amount Before God Except Child's Play, By Means Of Which God Is Pleased To Give His Gifts In The Field, At Home, And Everywhere? These Are The Masks Of Our Lord God, Behind Which He Wants To Be Hidden And To Do All Things.

It Is Not Necessary For A Preacher To Express All His Thoughts In One Sermon. A Preacher Should Have Three Principles: First, To Make A Good Beginning, And Not Spend Time With Many Words Before Coming To The Point; Secondly, To Say That Which Belongs To The Subject In Chief, And Avoid Strange And Foreign Thoughts; Thirdly, To Stop At The Proper Time.

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

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

We Must Beat The Gospel Into Peoples' Heads Incessantly Because It's The One Thing We're Prone To Forget.

Stubbornness Should Have Been My Middle Name.

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.

Next To The Word Of God, Music Deserves The Highest Praise.

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

Sinners Are Attractive Because They Are Loved; They Are Not Loved Because They Are Attractive.

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

Believest Thou? Then Thou Wilt Speak Boldly. Speakest Thou Boldy? Then Thou Must Suffer. Sufferest Thou? Then Thou Shalt Be Comforted. For Faith, The Confession Thereof, And The Cross Do Follow One Another.

Christians Are To Be Taught That The Pope Would And Should Wish To Give Of His Own Money, Even Though He Had To Sell The Basilica Of St. Peter, To Many Of Those From Whom Certain Hawkers Of Indulgences Cajole Money.

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

We Know, On The Authority Of Moses, That Longer Than Six Thousand Years The World Did Not Exist.

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.

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

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.

Astrology Is Framed By The Devil, To The End People May Be Scared From Entering Into The State Of Matrimony, And From Every Divine And Human Office And Calling.

Grace Was Not Given To Heal The Spiritually Sick But To Decorate Spiritual Heroes!

Whoever Wishes To Be A Christian, Let Him Pluck Out The Eyes Of His Reason.

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 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.

When I Am Assailed With Heavy Tribulations, I Rush Out Among My Pigs Rather Than Remain Alone By Myself. 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. So The Human Heart, Unless It Be Occupied With Some Employment, Leaves Space For The Devil, Who Wriggles Himself In And Brings With Him A Whole Host Of Evil Thoughts, Temptations, And Tribulations, Which Grind Out The Heart.

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

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If We Wish To Wash Our Hands Of The Jews Blasphemy And Not Share In Their Guilt, We Have To Part Company With Them. They Must Be Driven From Our Country.

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

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

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.

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.

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Dearest Jesus, Holy Child, Make Thee A Bed, Soft, Undefiled, Within My Heart, That It May Be A Quiet Chamber Kept For Thee.

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A Christian Is A Perfectly Free Lord Of All, Subject To None. A Christian Is A Perfectly Dutiful Servant Of All, Subject Of All, Subject To All.

Teaching Is Of More Importance Than Urging.

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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.

Rest In The Lord; Wait Patiently For Him. In Hebrew, "be Silent In God, And Let Him Mould Thee." Keep Still, And He Will Mould Thee To The Right Shape.

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Prayer Is Climbing Up Into The Heart Of God.

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The Gospel Cannot Be Preached And Heard Enough, For It Cannot Be Grasped Well Enough ... Moreover, Our Greatest Task Is To Keep You Faithful To This Article And To Bequeath This Treasure To You When We Die.

As For The Demented, I Hold It Certain That All Beings Deprived Of Reason Are Thus Afflicted Only By The Devil.

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.

Prayer, Study, And Suffering Make A Pastor.

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

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

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.

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

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

Blood Alone Moves The Wheels Of History.

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.

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

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

Faith Is The Yes Of The Heart.

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

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

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.

When God Wants To Speak And Deal With Us, He Does Not Avail Himself Of An Angel But Of Parents, Or The Pastor, Or Of Our Neighbor.

What Do We Older Folks Live For If Not For The Care Of The Young, To Teach And Train Them?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Each Betrayal Begins With Trust.

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The Great Unthankfulness, Contempt Of God's Word, And Wilfulness Of The World, Make Me Fear That The Divine Light Will Soon Cease To Shine On Man, For God's Word Has Ever Had Its Certain Course.

God Himself Will Milk The Cows Through Him Whose Vocation That Is.

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

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.

The Devil And Temptations Also Do Give Occasion Unto Us Somewhat To Learn And Understand The Scriptures, By Experience And Practice. Without Trials And Temptations We Should Never Understand Anything Thereof; No, Not Although We Diligently Read And Heard The Same.

Our Lord Has Written The Promise Of Resurrection, Not In Books Alone, But In Every Leaf In Springtime.

A Man Must Completely Despair Of Himself In Order To Become Fit To Obtain The Grace Of Christ.

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

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.

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

Whatever You Love Most, That Is Your God.

Our Works Do Not Generate Righteousness, Rather Our Righteousness In Christ Generates Works.

Forgiveness Is God's Command.

What Are The Things We Should Pray For? First, Our Personal Troubles...the Greatest Trouble We Can Ever Know Is Thinking That We Have No Trouble For We Can Become Hard-hearted And Insensible To What Is Inside Of Us.

I Believe That The Devil Has Destroyed Many Good Books Of The Church, As, Aforetime, He Killed And Crushed Many Holy Persons, The Memory Of Whom Has Now Passed Away; But The Bible He Was Fain To Leave Subsisting.

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

You Should Not Believe Your Conscience And Your Feelings More Than The Word Which The Lord Who Receives Sinners Preaches To You.

The Devil Won't Stay Where There Is Music.

I Am Not Permitted To Let My Love Be So Merciful As To Tolerate And Endure False Doctrine. When Faith And Doctrine Are Concerned And Endangered, Neither Love Nor Patience Are In Order....when These Are Concerned, Neither Toleration Nor Mercy Are In Order, But Only Anger, Dispute, And Destruction - To Be Sure, Only With The Word Of God As Our Weapon.

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

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

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

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.

I Think These Things [firearms] Were Invented By Satan Himself, For They Can't Be Defended Against With (ordinary) Weapons And Fists. All Human Strength Vanishes When Confronted With Firearms. A Man Is Dead Before He Sees What's Coming.

To Preach Christ Is To Feed The Soul, To Justify It, To Set It Free, And To Save It, If It Believes The Preaching.

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.

True Humility Does Not Know That It Is Humble. If It Did, It Would Be Proud From The Contemplation Of So Fine A Virtue.

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.

God's Mark Is On Everything That Obeys Him.

Then They Began To Say: 'yes, But How Can We Know What Is God's Word, And What Is Right Or Wrong? We Must Learn This From The Pope And The Councils.' Very Well Then, Let Them Conclude And Say What They Please, Yet I Will Reply, You Cannot Put Your Confidence In That Nor Thus Satisfy Your Conscience, For You Must Determine This Matter Yourself, For Your Very Life Depends Upon It. Therefore God Must Speak To Your Heart: This Is God's Word; Otherwise You Are Undecided.

Our Suffering Is Not Worthy The Name Of Suffering. When I Consider My Crosses, Tribulations, And Temptations, I Shame Myself Almost To Death, Thinking What Are They In Comparison Of The Sufferings Of My Blessed Savior Christ Jesus.

Always Preach In Such A Way That If The People Listening Do Not Come To Hate Their Sin, They Will Instead Hate You

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.

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

I Have So Much To Do Today, I'll Need To Spend Another Hour On My Knees.

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.

Yes, I See The Church As The Body Of Christ. But, Oh! How We Have Blemished And Scarred That Body Through Social Neglect And Through Fear Of Being Nonconformists.

In Human Affairs We Accomplish Everything Through Prayer. What Has Been Properly Arranged We Keep In Order, What Has Gone Amiss We Change And Improve, What Cannot Be Changed And Improved We Bear, Overcoming All The Trouble And Sustaining All The Good By Prayer. Against Force There Is No Help But Prayer Alone.

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.

If He Have Faith, The Believer Cannot Be Restrained. He Betrays Himself. He Breaks Out. He Confesses And Teaches This Gospel To The People At The Risk Of Life Itself.

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.

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.

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

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

The Whole Turkish Empire Is Nothing Else But A Crust Cast By Heaven's Great Housekeeper To His Dogs.

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

The Bible Is The Cradle Wherein Christ Is Laid.

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This Is That Mystery Which Is Rich In Divine Grace Unto Sinners: Wherein By A Wonderful Exchange, Our Sins Are No Longer Ours But Christ's; And The Righteousness Of Christ Is Not Christ's But Ours. He Has Emptied Himself Of His Righteousness That He Might Clothe Us In It, And Fill Us With It: And He Has Taken Our Evils Upon Himself That He Might Deliver Us From Them.

Feelings Come, And Feelings Go, And Feelings Are Deceiving. My Warrant Is The Word Of God, Naught Else Is Worth Believing.

No Man Ought To Lay A Cross Upon Himself, Or To Adopt Tribulation, As Is Done In Popedom; But If A Cross Or Tribulation Come Upon Him, Then Let Him Suffer It Patiently, And Know That It Is Good And Profitable For Him.

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

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

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

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

The 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.

How Is God's Name Hallowed Among Us? When Both Our Doctrine And Living Are Truly Christian.

Everything Is From God Himself, Both Commandment And Fulfillment. He Alone Commands; He Alone Fulfills.

Every Evening Brings Us Nearer God.

Good Works Do Not Make A Good Man, But A Good Man Does Good Works.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Heavenly Blessing Is To Be Delivered From The Law, Sin And Death; To Be Justified And Quickened To Life: To Have Peace With God; To Have A Faithful Heart, A Joyful Conscience, A Spiritual Consolation; To Have The Knowledge Of Jesus Christ; To Have The Gift Of Prophecy, And The Revelation Of The Scriptures; To Have The Gift Of The Holy Ghost, And To Rejoice In God.

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.

If God Had Not Permitted The People Of Jerusalem To Be Torn Asunder And Driven Them From The Land, But Had Let Them Keep It After Before, No One Could Convince Them That They Are Not God`s Chosen People.

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.

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.

We Will Win Our Freedom Because The Sacred Heritage Of Our Nation And The Eternal Will Of God Are Embodied In Our Echoing Demands.

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.

How Often Have Not The Demons Called 'nix,' Drawn Women And Girls Into The Water, And There Had Commerce With Them, With Fearful Consequences.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The Lord Commonly Gives Riches To Foolish People, To Whom He Gives Nothing Else.

Faith Is Under The Left Nipple.

God Delights In Our Temptations And Yet Hates Them. He Delights In Them When They Drive Us To Prayer; He Hates Them When They Drive Us To Despair.

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, A Bulwark Never Failing: Our Helper He Amid The Flood Of Mortal Ills Prevailing.

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

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You Have As Much Laughter As You Have Faith.

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.

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

God Does Not Give Grace Freely In The Sense That He Will Demand No Satisfaction, But He Gave Christ To Be The Satisfaction For Us.

Divinity Consists In Use And Practice, Not In Speculation.

People Go Through Three Conversions: The Conversion Of Their Head, Their Heart, And Their Pocketbook. Unfortunately, Not All At The Same Time.

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

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

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

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.

Great God, What Do I See And Hear! The End Of Things Created! The Judge Of Mankind Doth Appear On Clouds Of Glory Seated! The Trumpet Sounds; The Graves Restore, The Dead Which They Contained Before; Prepare, My Soul, To Meet Him!

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.

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.

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.

If You Could Understand A Single Grain Of Wheat You Would Die Of Wonder.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

Reason Should Be Destroyed In All Christians.

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.

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.

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

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

Demons Live In Many Lands, But Particularly In Prussia.

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

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