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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

If Then, Moses So Distinctly Announces That There Is In Us Not Only A Faculty, But Also A Facility For Keeping All Commandments, Why Are We Sweating So Much? ... What Need Is There Now Of Christ Or Of Spirit? We Have Found A Passage That Asserts Freedom Of Choice, But Also Distinctly Teaches That The Keeping Of The Commandments Is Easy.

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.

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.

I [i.e., God] Have Given You Baptism As A Gift For The Forgiveness Of Sins, And Preach To You Unceasingly By Word Of Mouth Concerning This Treasure, Sealing It With The Sacrament Of My Body And Blood, So That You Need Never Doubt. True, It Seems Little And Insignificant That By The Washing Of Water, The Word, And The Sacrament This Should All Be Effected. But Don't Let Your Eyes Deceive You.

I Have Done Nothing; The Word Has Done And Accomplished Everything.... I Let The Word Do Its Work!

Next To The Word Of God, The Noble Art Of Music Is The Greatest Treasure In The World.

Greatest Treasure

There Is No Wisdom Save In Truth. Truth Is Everlasting, But Our Ideas About Truth Are Changeable. Only A Little Of The First Fruits Of Wisdom, Only A Few Fragments Of The Boundless Heights, Breadths And Depths Of Truth, Have I Been Able To Gather.

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

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

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.

Faith Is A Living, Bold Trust In God's Grace, So Certain Of God's Favour That It Would Risk Death A Thousand Times Trusting In It. Such Confidence And Knowledge Of God's Grace Makes You Happy, Joyful And Bold In Your Relationship To God And All Creatures. The Holy Spirit Makes This Happen Through Faith. Because Of It, You Freely, Willingly And Joyfully Do Good To Everyone, Serve Everyone, Suffer All Kinds Of Things, Love And Praise The God Who Has Shown You Such Grace.

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

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

All Which Happens Through The Whole World Happens Through Hope. No Husbandman Would Sow A Grain Of Corn If He Did Not Hope It Would Spring Up And Bring Forth The Ear; How Much More We Are Helped On By Hope In The Eternal Life.

The Devil...clutched Hold Of The Miserable Young Man...and Flew Off With Him Through The Ceiling, Since Which Time Nothing Has Been Heard Of Him.

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.

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.

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.

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

Those Who Love Music Are Gentle And Honest In Their Tempers. I Always Loved Music, And Would Not, For A Great Matter, Be Without The Little Skill Which I Possess In The Art.

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

The Two Chief Things Are Faith And Love. Faith Receives The Good; Love Gives The Good. Faith Offers Us God As Our Own; Love Gives Us To Our Neighbor As His Own.

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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.

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.

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.

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

Faith Is The Master, And Reason The Maid-servant.

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.

As Long As A Man Is Persuaded That He Can Make Even The Smallest Contribution To His Salvation, He Remains Self-confident And Does Not Utterly Despair Of Himself, And So Is Not Humbled Before God. Such A Man Plans Out For Himself A Position, An Occasion, A Work, Which Shall Bring Him Final Salvation, But Which Will Not.

As Long As There Is Poverty In This World, No Man Can Be Totally Rich Even If He Has A Billion Dollars.

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.

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

The Devil Can So Completely Assume The Human Form, When He Wants To Deceive Us, That We May Well Lie With What Seems To Be A Woman, Of Real Flesh And Blood, And Yet All The While 'tis Only The Devil In The Shape Of A Woman. 'tis The Same With Women, Who May Think That A Man Is In Bed With Them, Yet 'tis Only The Devil; And...the Result Of This Connection Is Oftentimes An Imp Of Darkness, Half Mortal, Half Devil.

No Man Understands The Scriptures, Unless He Be Acquainted With The Cross.

Good Works Are The Seals And Proofs Of Faith; For Even As A Letter Must Have A Seal To Strengthen The Same, Even So Faith Must Have Good Works.

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.

God's Love Gives In Such A Way That It Flows From A Father's Heart, The Well-spring Of All Good. The Heart Of The Giver Makes The Gift Dear And Precious; As Among Ourselves We Say Of Even A Trifling Gift, "it Comes From A Hand We Love," And Look Not So Much At The Gift As At The Heart.

Demons Live In Many Lands, But Particularly In Prussia.

Let Your Holy Angel Have Charge Concerning Us, That The Wicked One Have No Power Over Us.

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

The Confidence That God Is Mindful Of The Individual Is Of Tremendous Value In Dealing With The Disease Of Fear, For It Gives Us A Sense Of Worth, Of Belonging, And Of At Homeness In The Universe.

Does It Follow From: 'turn Ye' That Therefore You Can Turn? Does It Follow From "'love The Lord Thy God With All Thy Heart' (deut 6.5) That Therefore You Can Love With All Your Heart? What Do Arguments Of This Kind Prove, But The 'free-will' Does Not Need The Grace Of God, But Can Do All Things By Its Own Power....but It Does Not Follow From This That Man Is Converted By His Own Power, Nor Do The Words Say So; They Simply Say: "if Thou Wilt Turn,telling Man What He Should Do. When He Knows It, And Sees That He Cannot Do It, He Will Ask Whence He May Find Ability To Do It..." 164

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.

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?

No One Would Be Happier Than Luther To Be Commended By The Testimony Of The Time That He Had Been Neither Slack Nor Deceitful In Maintaining The Course Of Truth, But Had Shown Quite Enough And Even Too Much Vehemence.

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.

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.

False Preachers Are Worse Than Deflowerers Of Virgins.

If Any Man Doth Ascribe Of Salvation, Even The Very Least, To The Free Will Of Man, He Knoweth Nothing Of Grace, And He Hath Not Learnt Jesus Christ Aright.

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.

The Church That Preaches The Gospel In All Of Its Fullness, Except As It Applies To The Great Social Ills Of The Day, Is Failing To Preach The Gospel.

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