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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.

-Martin Luther

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Merit Is A Work

Martin Luther

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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.

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... 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.

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

If The Devil Were Wise Enough And Would Stand By In Silence And Let The Gospel Be Preached, He Would Suffer Less Harm. For When There Is No Battle For The Gospel It Rusts And It Finds No Cause And No Occasion To Show Its Vigor And Power. Therefore, Nothing Better Can Befall The Gospel Than That The World Should Fight It With Force And Cunning.

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

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For God Is Wholly Present In All Creation, In Every Corner, He Is Behind You And Before You. Do You Think He Is Sleeping On A Pillow In Heaven? He Is Watching Over You And Protecting You.

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

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.

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Music Is The Art Of The Prophets And The Gift Of God.

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We Believe That The Very Beginning And End Of Salvation, And The Sum Of Christianity, Consists Of Faith In Christ, Who By His Blood Alone, And Not By Any Works Of Ours, Has Put Away Sin, And Destroyed The Power Of Death.

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Prayer Is Climbing Up Into The Heart Of God.

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.

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.

God Writes The Gospel Not In The Bible Alone, But Also On Trees, And In The Flowers And Clouds And Stars.

Some Will Object That The Law Is Divine And Holy. Let It Be Divine And Holy. The Law Has No Right To Tell Me That I Must Be Justified By It.

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.

In Switzerland, On A High Mountain, Not Far From Lucerne, There Is A Lake They Call Pilate's Pond, Which The Devil Has Fixed Upon As One Of The Chief Residences Of His Evil Spirits.

I Cannot And Will Not Recant Anything, For To Go Against Conscience Is Neither Right Nor Safe. Here I Stand, I Can Do No Other, So Help Me God. Amen.

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.

There Are Some Of Us Who Think To Ourselves, 'if I Had Only Been There! How Quick I Would Have Been To Help The Baby. I Would Have Washed His Linen. How Happy I Would Have Been To Go With The Shepherds To See The Lord Lying In The Manger!' Why Don't We Do It Now? We Have Christ In Our Neighbor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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