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Our Faith Is An Astounding Thing-astounding That I Should Believe Him To Be The Son Of God Who Is Suspended On The Cross, Whom I Have Never Seen, With Whom I Have Never Become Acquainted.

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Our Faith Is An

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Our Faith Is An Astounding Thing-astounding That I Should Believe Him To Be The Son Of God Who Is Suspended On The Cross, Whom I Have Never Seen, With Whom I Have Never Become Acquainted.

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If I Fail To Spend Two Hours In Prayer Each Morning, The Devil Gets The Victory Through The Day. I Have So Much Business I Cannot Get On Without Spending Three Hours Daily In Prayer.

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

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.

Forgive Us Our Trespasses As We Forgive Them That Trespass Against Us.

And Though This World With Devils Filled, Should Threaten To Undo Us, We Will Not Fear, For God Hath Willed His Truth To Triumph Through Us.

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

Antichrist Is The Pope And The Turk [muslim] Together. A Beast Full Of Life Must Have A Body And Soul. The Spirit Or Soul Of Antichrist Is The Pope, His Flesh Or Body The Turk.

Riches, Understanding, Beauty, Are Fair Gifts Of God.

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.

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

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.

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.

Thus, Dear Friends, I Have Said It Clearly Enough, And I Believe You Ought To Understand It And Not Make Liberty A Law.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The Fewer The Words, The Better The Prayer.

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

A Dairymaid Can Milk Cows To The Glory Of God

Grant That I May Not Pray Alone With The Mouth; Help Me That I May Pray From The Depths Of My Heart.

Prayer Is A Powerful Thing; For God Has Bound And Tied Himself Thereunto.

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

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.

He Who Knoweth And Understandeth Christ's Life, Knoweth And Understandeth Christ Himself; And In Like Manner, He Who Understandeth Not His Life, Doth Not Understand Christ Himself. And He Who Believeth On Christ, Believeth That His Life Is The Best And Noblest Life That Can Be, And If A Man Believe Not This, Neither Doth He Believe On Christ Himself.

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

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

I Feel Much Freer Now That I Am Certain The Pope Is The Antichrist.

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.

If We Esteem Them Too Highly, Good Works Can Become The Greatest Idolatry.

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

Heretics Cannot Themselves Appear Good Unless They Depict The Church As Evil, False, And Mendacious. They Alone Wish To Be Esteemed As The Good, But The Church Must Be Made To Appear Evil In Every Respect.

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.

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

Now If I Believe In God's Son And Remember That He Became Man, All Creatures Will Appear A Hundred Times More Beautiful To Me Than Before. Then I Will Properly Appreciate The Sun, The Moon, The Stars, Trees, Apples, As I Reflect That He Is Lord Over All Things. ...god Writes The Gospel, Not In The Bible Alone, But Also On Trees, And In The Flowers And Clouds And Stars.

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.

If You Want To Change The World, Pick Up Your Pen And Write.

I Am Afraid That The Schools Will Prove The Very Gates Of Hell, Unless They Diligently Labor In Explaining The Holy Scriptures And Engraving Them In The Heart Of The Youth.

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

To Do So No More Is The Truest Repentance.

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

We Refuse To Believe That There Are Insufficient Funds In The Great Vaults Of Opportunity Of This Nation.

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

If The Earth Is Fit For Laughter Then Surely Heaven Is Filled With It. Heaven Is The Birthplace Of Laughter.

The World Doesn't Want To Be Punished. It Wants To Remain In Darkness. It Doesn't Want To Be Told That What It Believes Is False. If You Also Don't Want To Be Corrected, Then You Might As Well Leave The Church And Spend Your Time At The Bar And Brothel. But If You Want To Be Saved-and Remember That There's Another Life After This One-you Must Accept Correction.

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?

It Is Impossible To Separate Works From Faith- Yea, Just As Impossible As To Separate Burning And Shining From Fire.

He Who Loves Not Women, Wine, And Song Remains A Fool His Whole Life Long.

In His Life Christ Is An Example Showing Us How To Live In His Death He Is A Sacrifice Satisfying Our Sins In His Resurrection A Conqueror In His Ascension A King In His Intercession A High Priest.

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 Works Of The Righteous Would Be Mortal Sins If They Would Not Be Feared As Mortal Sins By The Righteous Themselves Out Of Pious Fear Of God.

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

My Conscience Is Captive To The Word Of God

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.

It Is The Part Of A Christian To Take Care Of His Own Body For The Very Purpose That, By Its Soundness And Wellbeing, He May Be Enabled To Labour, And To Acquire And Preserve Property, For The Aid Of Those Who Are In Want, That Thus The Stronger Member May Serve The Weaker Member, And We May Be Children Of God, And Busy For One Another, Bearing One Another's Burdens, And So Fulfiling The Law Of Christ.

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.

What Will You Do In The Mundane Days Of Faithfulness?

Christ Took Our Sins And The Sins Of The Whole World As Well As The Father's Wrath On His Shoulders, And He Has Drowned Them Both In Himself So That We Are Thereby Reconciled To God And Become Completely Righteous.

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.

Let Christ's Righteousness And Grace, Not Yours, Be Your Refuge.

When The Gospel Flourishes In The Church, Everything Flourishes With It.

That Little Bird Has Chosen His Shelter. Above It Are The Stars And The Deep Heaven Of Worlds. Yet He Is Rocking Himself To Sleep Without Caring For Tomorrow's Lodging, Calmly Clinging To His Little Twig, And Leaving God To Think For Him.

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

The First Duty Of The Gospel Preacher Is To Declare God's Law And To Show The Nature Of Sin.

Preaching The Gospel

Sacred Scripture Tells Us That Joshua Commanded The Sun To Stand Still, And Not The Earth.

Sacred Scripture

Adam Was Created, As It Were, Intoxicated With Rejoicing Toward God And Was Delighted Also With All The Other Creatures.

Christians Are Rare People On Earth.

Women Should Remain At Home, Sit Still, And Bear Children.

Therefore, Is Thy Brother A Sinner? Then Cover His Sin And Pray For Him. Dost Thou Publish His Sins, Then Truly Thou Art Not A Child Of Your Merciful Father; For Otherwise Thou Wouldst Be Also As He, Merciful. It Is Certainly True That We Cannot Show As Great Mercy To Our Neighbor, As God Has To Us; But It Is The True Work Of The Devil That We Do The Very Opposite Of Mercy, Which Is A Sure Sign That There Is Not A Grain Of Mercy In Us.

God Is A Blank Sheet Upon Which Nothing Is Found But What You Yourself Have Written.

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

Hereby We May Understand That God, Of His Special Grace, Maketh The Teachers Of The Gospel Subject To The Cross, And To All Kinds Of Afflicitons, For The Salvation Of Themselves And Of The People; For Otherwise They Could By No Means Beat Down This Beast Which Is Called Vain-glory.

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

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.

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

Christian Life Consists Of Faith And Charity

It Is As If A Wolf Devoured A Sheep And The Sheep Were So Powerful That It Transformed The Wolf And Turned Him Into A Sheep. So, When We Eat Christ's Flesh Physically And Spiritually, The Food Is So Powerful That It Transforms Us.

The State Of Matrimony Is The Chief In The World After Religion; But People Shun It Because Of Its Inconveniences, Like One Who, Running Out Of The Rain, Falls Into The River.

The Holy Ghost Must Here Be Our Only Master And Tutor.

Every Evening Brings Us Nearer God.

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.

Works Indeed Are Good, And God Strictly Requires Them Of Us, But They Do Not Make Us Holy.

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.

God Can Be Found Only In Suffering And The Cross.

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

Whoso Hearkens Not To God's Voice, Is An Idolator, Though He Perform The Highest And Most Heavy Service Of God.

Divinity Consists In Use And Practice, Not In Speculation.

The Prosperity Of A Country Depends, Not On The Abundance Of Its Revenues, Nor On The Strength Of Its Fortifications, Nor On The Beauty Of Its Public Buildings; But It Consists In The Number Of Its Cultivated Citizens, In Its Men Of Education, Enlightenment And Character.

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

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.

My Heart, Which Is So Full To Overflowing, Has Often Been Solaced And Refreshed By Music When Sick And Weary.

‎what You Do In Your House Is Worth As Much As If You Did It Up In Heaven For Our Lord God. We Should Accustom Ourselves To Think Of Our Position And Work As Sacred And Well-pleasing To God, Not On Account Of The Position And Work, But On Account Of The Word And Faith From Which The Obedience And Work Flow.

Each Betrayal Begins With Trust.

Betraying Friends

A Penny Saved Is Better Than A Penny Earned.

I Would Rather Obey Than Work Miracles.

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.

The Bible Is The Cradle Wherein Christ Is Laid.

Christian Inspirational

I Have To Hurry All Day To Get Time To Pray.

Our God Is The God From Whom Cometh Salvation: God Is The Lord By Who Escape Death.

So Preach That Those Who Do Not Fall Out With Their Sins May Fall Out With Thee.

Father And Mother Are Apostles, Bishops And Priests To Their Children, For It Is They Who Make Them Acquainted With The Gospel.

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

I Did Nothing. The Word Did It All.

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.

Nothing Good Ever Comes Of Violence.

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.

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.

The Kingdom Of God Does Not Consist In Talk, But In Power, That Is, In Works And Practice. God Loves The 'doers Of The Word' In Faith And Love, And Not The 'mere Hearers,' Who, Like Parrots, Have Learned To Utter Certain Expressions With Readiness.

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.

This Error Of Free Will Is A Special Doctrine Of The Antichrist.

Your Thoughts Of God Are Too Human

A Unjust Law, Is No Law At All.

Truly, If Faith Is There, The Believer Cannot Hold Back... He Breaks Out Into Good Works.

The True Despisers Of The World Are The People Who Accept What God Sends Them, Gratefully Use All Things When They Have Them, And Gladly Do Without Them If God Takes Them Away

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

You Parents Can Provide No Better Gift For Your Children Than An Education In The Liberal Arts. House And Home Burn Down, But An Education Is Easy To Carry Along.

Can He Who Understands Not God's Word, Understand God's Works?

In This Revolution No Plans Have Been Written For Retreat.

Everything That Is Done In This World Is Done By Hope.

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

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

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

I Know That A Christian Should Be Humble, But Against The Pope I Am Going To Be Proud And Say To Him: "you, Pope, I Will Not Have You For My Boss, For I Am Sure That My Doctrine Is Divine.

Brief Let Me Be. The Fewer Words The Better Prayer.

In Many Countries There Are Particular Places To Which Devils More Especially Resort. In Prussia There Is An Infinite Number Of Evil Spirits.

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

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.

Many Have Been Deceived By Outward Appearances And Have Proceeded To Write And Teach About Good Works And How They Justify Without Even Mentioning Faith.... Wearying Themselves With Many Works, They Never Come To Righteousness.

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

The Dog Is The Most Faithful Of Animals And Would Be Much Esteemed Were It Not So Common. Our Lord God Has Made His Greatest Gifts The Commonest.

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.

As Long As We Live There Is Never Enough Singing.

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 .

My Temptations Have Been My Masters Of Divinity.

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

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

Riches Are The Pettiest And Least Worthy Gifts Which God Can Give A Man. What Are They To God's Word, To Bodily Gifts, Such As Beauty And Health; Or To The Gifts Of The Mind, Such As Understanding, Skill, Wisdom! Yet Men Toil For Them Day And Night, And Take No Rest. Therefore God Commonly Gives Riches To Foolish People To Whom He Gives Nothing Else.

Every Occupation Has Its Own Honor Before God. Ordinary Work Is A Divine Vocation Or Calling. In Our Daily Work No Matter How Important Or Mundane We Serve God By Serving The Neighbor And We Also Participate In God's On-going Providence For The Human Race.

[the Papists] Ought To Have Sympathy With Us Weak, Poor Christians, And Not Condemn Us Or Make Fun Of Us Because We Are Learning So Childishly To Toddle Along The Benches, Nay, To Creep In The Mire, And Cannot Skip And Dance, On Such Light Feet And Legs, Over And Outside Of God's Commandments, As They Do, The Strong Heroes And Giants ... God Forbid That We Should!

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.

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.

Despair Makes Priests And Friars.

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

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.

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

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

Procrastination

If We Christians Would Join The Wise Men, We Must Close Our Eyes To All That Glitters Before The World And Look Rather On The Despised And Foolish Things, Help The Poor, Comfort The Despised, And Aid The Neighbor In His Need.

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.

If Ever The Church Is To Flourish Again, One Must Begin By Instructing The Young.

Out Of The Mountain Of Despair, A Stone Of Hope.

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

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

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

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.

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

The Gospel Cannot Be Truly Preached Without Offense And Tumult.

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.

The Fool Will Upset The Whole Science Of Astronomy.

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.

After The Devil Himself, There Is No Worse Folk Than The Pope And His Followers.

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.

In The Church, Great Wonders Daily Occur, Such As The Forgiveness Of Sins, Triumph Over Death . . . The Gift Of Righteousness And Eternal Life.

He Who Wholly Renounces Himself, And Relies Not On Mere Human Reason, Will Make Good Progress In The Scriptures; But The World Comprehends Them Not, From Ignorance Of That Mortification Which Is The Gift Of God's Word.

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

I Can't Keep The Sparrows From Flying Around My Head, But I Can Keep Them From Making A Nest In My Hair.

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.

There Is On Earth Among All Dangers No More Dangerous Thing Than A Richly Endowed And Adroit Reason...reason Must Be Deluded, Blinded, And Destroyed.

I Only Ask In All Kindness That The Man Who Wishes At This Time To Have My Books Will By No Means Let Them Be A Hindrance To His Own Study Of The Scriptures, But Read Them As I Read The Orders And The Ordures Of The Pope And The Books Of The Sophists.

Prayer, Study, And Suffering Make A Pastor.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Although The Christian Is Thus Free From All Works, He Ought In This Liberty To Empty Himself, Take Upon Himself The Form Of A Servant, Be Made In The Likeness Of Men, Be Found In Human Form, And To Serve, Help And In Every Way Deal With His Neighbor As He Sees That God Through Christ Has Dealt And Still Deals With Him.

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 God Of This World Is Riches, Pleasure And Pride.

Sleep Is A Most Useful And Most Salutary Operation Of Nature. Scarcely Any Minor Annoyance Angers Me More Than The Being Suddenly Awakened Out Of A Pleasant Slumber. I Understand That In Italy They Torture Poor People By Depriving Them Of Sleep. `tis A Torture That Cannot Long Be Endured.

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

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

At The Last, When We Die, We Have The Dear Angels For Our Escort On The Way. They Who Can Grasp The Whole World In Their Hands Can Surely Also Guard Our Souls, That They Make That Last Journey Safely.

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

Faith Is The 'yes' Of The Heart, A Conviction On Which One Stakes One's Life.

The Conscience Is Eternal And Never Dies. Peace If Possible, But Truth At Any Rate.

Isaiah Calls The Church Barren Because Her Children Are Born Without Effort By The Word Of Faith Through The Spirit Of God. It Is A Matter Of Birth, Not Of Exertion.

Whenever The Devil Harasses You, Seek The Company Of Men Or Drink More, Or Joke And Talk Nonsense, Or Do Some Other Merry Thing. Sometimes We Must Drink More, Sport, Recreate Ourselves, And Even Sin A Little To Spite The Devil, So That We Leave Him No Place For Troubling Our Consciences With Trifles. We Are Conquered If We Try Too Conscientiously Not To Sin At All. So When The Devil Says To You: Do Not Drink, Answer Him: I Will Drink, And Right Freely, Just Because You Tell Me Not To.

All The Passages In The Holy Scriptures That Mention Assistance Are They That Do Away With "free-will", And These Are Countless...for Grace Is Needed, And The Help Of Grace Is Given, Because "free-will" Can Do Nothing.

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.

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

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

Worship Service

Faith Cannot Be Inherited Or Gained By Being Baptized Into A Church. Faith Is A Matter Between The Individual And God.

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.

The Fruit Does Not Make The Tree Good Or Bad But The Tree Itself Is What Determines The Nature Of The Fruit. In The Same Way, A Person First Must Be Good Or Bad Before Doing A Good Or Bad Work.

All These Things He Must Be In Me, Abiding, Living, Speaking In Me; That I May Be The Righteousness Of God In Him (2 Cor. V. 21); Not In Love, Nor In Gifts And Graces Which Follow; But In Him.

God Freely Forgives Us On Account Of Christnot On Account Of Our Works, Contrition, Confession, Or Satisfactions.

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.

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

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.

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