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Lord God, I Thank Thee That Thou Hast Been Pleased To Make Me A Poor And Indigent Man Upon Earth. I Have Neither House Nor Land Nor Money, To Leave Behind Me. Thou Hast Given Me Wife And Children, Whom I Now Restore To Thee. Lord, Nourish, Teach, And Preserve Them As Thou Hast Me.

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Lord God, I Thank

Martin Luther

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Lord God, I Thank Thee That Thou Hast Been Pleased To Make Me A Poor And Indigent Man Upon Earth. I Have Neither House Nor Land Nor Money, To Leave Behind Me. Thou Hast Given Me Wife And Children, Whom I Now Restore To Thee. Lord, Nourish, Teach, And Preserve Them As Thou Hast Me.

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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.

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

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Acknowledge You

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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.

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, A Bulwark Never Failing; Our Helper He, Amid The Flood Of Mortal Ills Prevailing: For Still Our Ancient Foe Doth Seek To Work Us Woe; His Craft And Power Are Great, And, Armed With Cruel Hate, On Earth Is Not His Equal.

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We Are Beginning To Regain A Knowledge Of Creation, A Knowledge Forfeited By The Fall Of Adam. By God's Mercy We Can Begin To Recognize His Wonderful Works And Wonders Also In Flowers When We Ponder His Might And Goodness. Therefore We Laud, Magnify And Thank Him.

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

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.

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

If I Am Not Allowed To Laugh In Heaven, I Don't Want To Go There.

It Cannot, Indeed, Be Denied, That A Good Man Is More Worthy Of Love Than A Bad One.

A Preacher Should Have The Skill To Teach The Unlearned Simply Roundly, And Plainly; For Teaching Is Of More Importance Than Exhorting.

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?

God Works By Contraries So That A Man Feels Himself To Be Lost In The Very Moment When He Is On The Point Of Being Saved.

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.

The Man Who Has The Will To Undergo All Labor May Win To Any Good.

God Does Not Need Your Good Works, But Your Neighbor Does.

The Forces Of Good And Evil Are Working Within And Around Me, I Must Choose, And In A Free Will Universe I Do Have A Choice.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The Will Of Man Without The Grace Of God Is Not Free At All, But Is The Permanent Prisoner And Bondslave Of Evil Since It Cannot Turn Itself To Good.

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

World, Death, Devil, Hell, Away And Leave Me In Peace! You Have No Hold On Me. If You Will Not Let Me Live, Then I Will Die. But You Won't Succeed In That. Chop My Head Off, And It Won't Harm Me. I Have A God Who Will Give Me A New One.

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

I've Got So Much Work To Do Today, I'd Better Spend Two Hours In Prayer Instead Of One.

We Should Die Relying On Grace Alone

If I Had Power Over The Jews, As Our Princes And Cities Have, I Would Deal Severely With Their Lying Mouth

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