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Is It Not A Thing Most Abominable, That God Who Feeds So Many Mouths, Should Be Held In Such Low Esteem By Me, That I Will Not Trust Him To Feed Me? Yea, That A Guilder, Thirty-eight Cents, Should Be Valued More Highly Than God, Who Pours Out His Treasures Everywhere In Rich Profusion. For The World Is Full Of God And His Works. He Is Everywhere Present With His Gifts, And Yet We Will Not Trust In Him, Nor Accept His Visitation.

-Martin Luther

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Is It Not A Thing Most Abominable, That God Who Feeds So Many Mouths, Should Be Held In Such Low Esteem By Me, That I Will Not Trust Him To Feed Me? Yea, That A Guilder, Thirty-eight Cents, Should Be Valued More Highly Than God, Who Pours Out His Treasures Everywhere In Rich Profusion. For The World Is Full Of God And His Works. He Is Everywhere Present With His Gifts, And Yet We Will Not Trust In Him, Nor Accept His Visitation.

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It Is An Unsufferable Blasphemy To Reject The Public Ministry Or To Say That People Can Become Holy Without Sermons And Church. This Involves A Destruction Of The Church And Rebellion Against Ecclesiastical Order; Such Upheavals Must Be Warded Off And Punished Like All Other Revolts.

Many Demons Are In Woods, In Waters, In Wildernesses, And In Dark Poolly Places Ready To Hurt And Prejudice People; Some Are Also In The Thick Black Clouds, Which Cause Hail, Lightning And Thunder, And Poison The Air, The Pastures And Grounds.

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

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

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

Obedience Is The Crown And Honour Of All Virtue.

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

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.

Bewilderment Is The True Comprehension. Not To Know Where You Are Going Is The True Knowledge.

Where You Are Going

I Frankly Confess That Even If It Were Possible I Should Not Wish To Have Free Choice Given To Me, Or To Have Anything Left In My Own Hands By Which I Might Strive For Salvation.

The Holy Scriptures Surpass In Efficaciousness All The Arts And All The Sciences Of The Philosophers And Jurists; These, Though Good And Necessary To Life Here Below, Are Vain And Of No Effect As To What Concerns The Life Eternal.

I Am Of A Different Mind Ten Times In The Course Of A Day. But I Resist The Devil, And Often It Is With A Fart That I Chase Him Away. When He Tempts Me With Silly Sins I Say, 'devil, Yesterday I Broke Wind Too. Have You Written It Down On Your List?

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

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.

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

Christ Ought To Be Preached With This Goal In Mind--that We Might Be Moved To Faith In Him So That He Is Not Just A Distant Historical Figure But Actually Christ For You And Me.

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.

Some People Need A Fig-leaf On Their Mouths.

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

If I Could Believe That God Was Not Angry With Me, I Would Stand On My Head For Joy.

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.

This Life Therefore Is Not Righteousness, But Growth In Righteousness, Not Health, But Healing, Not Being But Becoming, Not Rest But Exercise. We Are Not Yet What We Shall Be, But We Are Growing Toward It, The Process Is Not Yet Finished, But It Is Going On, This Is Not The End, But It Is The Road. All Does Not Yet Gleam In Glory, But All Is Being Purified.

Thought Provoking

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

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.

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

Despair Makes Priests And Friars.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

Stubbornness Should Have Been My Middle Name.

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

Our Preaching Does Not Stop With The Law. That Would Lead To Wounding Without Binding Up, Striking Down And Not Healing, Killing And Not Making Alive, Driving Down To Hell And Not Bringing Back Up, Humbling And Not Exalting. Therefore, We Must Also Preach Grace And The Promise Of Forgiveness - This Is The Means By Which Faith Is Awakened And Properly Taught. Without This Word Of Grace, The Law, Contrition, Penitence, And Everything Else Are Done And Taught In Vain.

Original Sin Is In Us Like Our Beard. We Are Shaved Today And Look Clean; Tomorrow Our Beard Has Grown Again, Nor Does It Cease Growing While We Remain On Earth. In Like Manner Original Sin Cannot Be Extirpated From Us; It Springs Up In Us As Long As We Live.

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

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.

I Did Nothing. The Word Did It All.

Christ Wants To Slay Reason And Subdue The Arrogance Of The Jews.

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 A Good Thing To Let Prayer Be The First Business Of The Morning And The Last Of The Evening.

It Is Pleasing To The Dear God Whenever Thou Rejoicest Or Laughest From The Bottom Of Thy Heart.

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

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

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The Devil Doesn't Stay Where There Is Music.

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.

There Is No Wisdom Save In Truth.

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.

Drive Them [jews] Like Mad Dogs From Our Land... Let Not One Of Them Live.

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

... We Must Drive Them [jews] Out Like Mad Dogs, So That We Do Not Become Partakers Of Their Abominable Blasphemy And All The Their Other Vices And Thus Merit God's Wrath And Be Damned With Them.

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I Myself Saw And Touched At Dessay, A Child Of This Sort, Which Had No Human Parents, But Had Proceeded From The Devil. He Was Twelve Years Old, And, In Outward Form, Exactly Resembled Ordinary Children.

The World Says Of Marriage: A Short Joy And A Long Displeasure. But He Who Understands It Finds In It Delight, Love, And Joy Without Ceasing.

The Defects Of A Preacher Are Soon Spied.

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

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

It Is Certainly True That Reason Is The Most Important And The Highest Rank Among All Things And, In Comparison With Other Things Of This Life, The Best And Something Divine. It Is The Inventor And Mentor Of All The Arts, Medicines, Laws, And Of Whatever Wisdom, Power, Virtue, And Glory Men Possess In This Life.

I Have So Much To Do That I Shall Spend The First Three Hours In Prayer.

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

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

Sin Is Essentially A Departure From God.

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.

In Short, I Will Preach It [the Word], Teach It, Write It, But I Will Constrain No Man By Force, For Faith Must Come Freely Without Compulsion. Take Myself As An Example. I Opposed Indulgences And All The Papists, But Never With Force. I Simply Taught, Preached, And Wrote God's Word; Otherwise I Did Nothing. And While I Slept, Or Drank Wittenberg Beer With My Friends Philip And Amsdorf, The Word So Greatly Weakened The Papacy That No Prince Or Emperor Ever Inflicted Such Losses Upon It. I Did Nothing; The Word Did Everything.

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.

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.

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

What Will You Do In The Mundane Days Of Faithfulness?

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.

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

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

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

Nothing In The World Causes So Much Misery As Uncertainty.

The Bible Is The Cradle That Holds The Christ, Without Him It Is Nothing More Than Wood And Straw.

Men Are Not Made Religious By Performing Certain Actions Which Are Externally Good, But They Must First Have Righteous Principles, And Then They Will Not Fail To Perform Virtuous Actions.

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

I Am Bound By The Texts Of The Bible, My Conscience Is Captive To The Word Of God, I Neither Can Nor Will Recant Anything, Since It Is Neither Right Nor Safe To Act Against My Conscience.

I Often Laugh At Satan, And There Is Nothing That Makes Him So Angry As When I Attack Him To His Face, And Tell Him That Through God I Am More Than A Match For Him

Whoever Wants To Be A Christian Should Tear The Eyes Out Of His Reason.

Dear Rulers ... I Maintain That The Civil Authorities Are Under Obligation To Compel The People To Send Their Children To School. ... If The Government Can Compel Such Citizens As Are Fit For Military Service To Bear Spear And Rifle, To Mount Ramparts, And Perform Other Martial Duties In Time Of War, How Much More Has It A Right To Compel The People To Send Their Children To School, Because In This Case We Are Warring With The Devil, Whose Object It Is Secretly To Exhaust Our Cities And Principalities Of Their Strong Men.

The Spiritual Rest, Which God Particularly Intends In This Commandment, Is This: That We Not Only Cease From Our Labor And Trade, But Much More, That We Let God Alone Work In Us And That We Do Nothing Of Our Own With All Our Powers.

God Indeed Tempteth No Man; But Yet We Ask, In This Petition, That He Would Keep And Preserve Us, Lest The Devil, The World, And Our Own Flesh Delude And Draw Us Away From The True Faith, And Throw Us Into Superstition, Distrust, Despair, And Other Grievous Sins And Wickedness; And That, If We Should Be Tempted Therewith Even To The Highest Degree, We Still May Conquer, And At Last Triumph Over Them.

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.

Whenever The True Message Of The Cross Is Abolished, The Anger Of Hypocrites And Heretics Eases And All Things Seem To Be At Peace.

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.

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

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

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.

Preaching The Gospel

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.

Therefore The Blind Jews Are Truly Stupid Fools.

Whatever You Love Most, That Is Your God.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

There Are Only Two Days On My Calendar... Today And The Day Of Judgment

The Devil Fears The Word Of God, He Can't Bite It; It Breaks His Teeth.

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

Make Sure To Send A Lazy Man The Angel Of Death.

God's Entire Divine Nature Is Wholly And Entirely In All Creatures, More Deeply, More Inwardly, More Present Than The Creature Is To Itself.

I Pray That God Would Open The Mouth In Me And The Heart In You And That He Would Be The Teacher In The Midst Of Us Who May In Us Speak And Hear.

When Satan Tells Me I Am A Sinner He Comforts Me Immeasurably, Since Christ Died For Sinners.

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.

True Christian Love Is Not Derived From Things Without, But Floweth From The Heart, As From A Spring.

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.

O, When It Comes To Faith, What A Living, Creative, Active, Powerful Thing It Is. It Cannot Do Other Than Good At All Times. It Never Waits To Ask Whether There Is Some Good Work To Do.

War For The Sake Of War Is Sin, But War For The Sake Of Defense Is Duty.

Christ Is The Master; The Scriptures Are Only The Servant.

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.

Whoever Has Skill In Music Is Of Good Temperament And Fitted For All Things. We Must Teach Music In Schools.

Peace Is More Important Than All Justice; And Peace Was Not Made For The Sake Of Justice, But Justice For The Sake Of Peace.

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.

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

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

Why Do You Rant And Brag With Such A Spate Of Words, As If You Wanted To Overwhelm Me With A Sort Of Tempest And Deluge Of Oratory-which Nevertheless Falls With The Greater Force On Your Own Head, While My Ark Rides Aloft In Safety?

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.

It Is The Duty Of A Prudent Minister Of God To Hold His Ministry In Honor And To See To It That It Is Respected By Those Who Are In His Charge. Moreoever, It Is The Duty Of A Faithful Minister Not To Exceed His Powers And Not To Abuse His Office In Pride, But, Rather, To Administer It For The Benefit Of His Subjects.

A Just Law Is A Man-made Code That Squares With The Moral Law Or The Law Of God. An Unjust Law Is A Code That Is Out Of Harmony With The Moral Law. To Put It In The Terms Of Saint Thomas Aquinas, An Unjust Law Is A Human Law That Is Not Rooted In Eternal And Natural Law.

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

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.

As Long As We Live There Is Never Enough Singing.

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.

Lord Jesus, You Are My Righteousness, I Am Your Sin. You Took On You What Was Mine; Yet Set On Me What Was Yours. You Became What You Were Not, That I Might Become What I Was Not.

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

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

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.

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.

Exhort Your Household To Learn [the Ten Commandments] Word For Word, That They Should Obey God…for If You Teach And Urge Your Families Things Will Go Forward.

What Shall We Do With...the Jews?...their Homes Also Should Be Razed And Destroyed.

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

Over Against The Devil And His Missionaries, The Authors Of False Doctrines And Sects, We Ought To Be Like The Apostle, Impatient, And Rigorously Condemnatory, As Parents Are With The Dog That Bites Their Little One, But The Weeping Child Itself They Soothe.

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.

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

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

Justification By Faith

He Who Hears This Name [god] From A Jew Must Inform The Authorities, Or Else Throw Sow Dung At Him When He Sees Him And Chase Him Away.

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

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.

Faith Ever Says, "if Thou Wilt," Not "if Thou Canst.

Music Is To Be Praised As Second Only To The Word Of God Because By Her All The Emotions Are Swayed. That Is Why There Are So Many Songs And Psalms. This Precious Gift Has Been Bestowed On Men Alone To Remind Them That They Are Created To Praise And Magnify The Lord.

We Can Mention Only One Point (which Experience Confirms), Namely, That Next To The Word Of God, Music Deserves The Highest Praise. No Greater Commendation Than This Can Be Found — At Least Not By Us. After All, The Gift Of Language Combined With The Gift Of Song Was Only Given To Man To Let Him Know That He Should Praise God With Both Word And Music, Namely, By Proclaiming [the Word Of God] Through Music.

If You Want To Interpret Well And Confidently, Set Christ Before You, For He Is The Man To Whom It All Applies, Every Bit Of It.

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.

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.

It Is Necessary To Understand That Black Power Is A Cry Of Disappointment. The Black Power Slogan Did Not Spring Full Grown From The Head Of Some Philosophical Zeus. It Was Born From The Wounds Of Despair And Disappointment. It Is A Cry Of Daily Hurt And Persistent Pain.

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

Thought Provoking

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

Those With Prodigious Skill In Music Are Better Suited For All Things.

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

Night And Day I Pondered Until I Saw The Connection Between The Justice Of God And The Statement That 'the Just Shall Live By His Faith.' Then I Grasped That The Justice Of God Is That Righteousness By Which Through Grace And Sheer Mercy God Justifies Us Through Faith. Thereupon I Felt Myself To Be Reborn And To Have Gone Through Open Doors Into Paradise.

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.

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.

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.

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.

By Faith We Began, By Hope We Continue, And By Revelation We Shall Obtain The Whole.

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

I Almost Feel Like Throwing Jimmy Into The Stove, As The Priest In Kulenberg Did.

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

Inspirational Kindness

The Kingdom Is To Be In The Midst Of Your Enemies. And He Who Will Not Suffer This Does Not Want To Be Of The Kingdom Of Christ; He Wants To Be Among Friends, To Sit Among Roses And Lilies, Not With The Bad People But The Devout People. O You Blasphemers And Betrayers Of Christ! If Christ Had Done What You Are Doing, Who Would Ever Have Been Spared?

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 See A Word That Hates Evil More Than It Loves Good.

God Wants Us To Pray, And He Wants To Hear Our Prayers-not Because We Are Worthy, But Because He Is Merciful.

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.

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

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.

God Doesn't Slack His Promises Because Of Our Sins Or Hasten Them Because Of Our Righteousness. He Pays No Attention To Either.

A Woman Has No Control Over Herself.

The Deceiver Can Magnify A Little Sin For The Purpose Of Causing One To Worry, Torture, And Kill Oneself With It. This Is Why A Christian Should Learn Not To Let Anyone Easily Create An Evil Conscience In Him. Rather Let Him Say, "this Error And This Failing Pass Away With My Other Imperfections And Sins, Which I Must Include In The Article Of Faith: I Believe In The Forgiveness Of Sins.

The Fool Will Upset The Whole Science Of Astronomy.

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

You Should Point To The Whole Man Jesus And Say, That Is God.

Each Betrayal Begins With Trust.

Betraying Friends

The Most Damnable And Pernicious Heresy That Has Ever Plagued The Mind Of Man Was The Idea That Somehow He Could Make Himself Good Enough To Deserve To Live With An All-holy God.

All Creatures Are Merely Veils Under Which God Hides Himself And Deals With Us.

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.

I Have No Use For Cranks Who Despise Music, Because It Is A Gift Of God. Music Drives Away The Devil And Makes People Joyful; They Forget Thereby All Wrath, Unchastity, Arrogance, And The Like. Next After Theology, I Give To Music The Highest Place And The Greatest Honor.

For God Does Not Want To Save Us By Our Own But By An Extraneous Righteousness, One That Does Not Originate In Ourselves But Comes To Us From Beyond Ourselves, Which Does Not Arise On Earth But Comes From Heaven.

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

For From The Error Of Not Knowing, Or Understanding, What Sin Is, There Necessarily Arises Another Error, That People Cannot Know Or Understand What Grace Is.

Not Only The Adoration Of Images Is Idolatry, But Also Trust In One's Own Righteousness, Works And Merits, And Putting Confidence In Riches And Power. As The Latter Is The Commonest, So It Also Is The Most Noxious.

Do Not Suppose That Abuses Are Eliminated By Destroying The Object Which Is Abused. Men Can Go Wrong With Wine And Women. Shall We Then Prohibit And Abolish Women?

There Is On Earth Among All Dangers, No More Dangerous Thing Than A Richly Endowed And Adroid Reason, Especially If She Enters Into Spiritual Matters Which Concern The Soul And God. For It Is More Possible To Teach An Ass To Read Than To Blind Such A Reason And Lead It Right; For Reason Must Be Deluded, Blinded, And Destroyed.

All Who Call On God In True Faith...will Certainly Be Heard.

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

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.

One Thing, And Only One Thing, Is Necessary For Christian Life, Righteousness, And Freedom. That One Thing Is The Most Holy Word Of God, The Gospel Of Christ.

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.

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.

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

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.

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