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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.

-Martin Luther

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The Believing Man Hath

Martin Luther

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

Be A Sinner, And Let Your Sins Be Strong, But Let Your Trust In Christ Be Stronger, And Rejoice In Christ Who Is The Victor Over Sin, Death, And The World.

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.

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

You Must Learn That If You Are A Christian, You Will Without A Doubt Experience All Kinds Of Opposition And Evil Inclinations In The Flesh. For When You Have Faith, There Will Be A Hundred More Evil Thoughts And A Hundred More Temptations Than Before.

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.

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.

Teaching Is Of More Importance Than Urging.

When I Am Angry I Can Write, Pray, And Preach Well, For Then My Whole Temperament Is Quickened, My Understanding Sharpened, And All Mundane Vexations And Temptations Depart.

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.

I Admit That I Deserve Death And Hell, What Of It? For I Know One Who Suffered And Made Satisfaction On My Behalf. His Name Is Jesus Christ, Son Of God, And Where He Is There I Shall Be Also!

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.

No Other God Have I But Thee, Born In A Manger, Died On A Tree.

What Will You Do In The Mundane Days Of Faithfulness?

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

Every Man Must Do Two Things Alone; He Must Do His Own Believing And His Own Dying.

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?

If The Gospel Was Of A Nature To Be Propagated Or Maintained By The Power Of The World, God Would Not Have Intrusted It To Fishermen. To Defend The Gospel Appertains Not To The Princes And Pontiffs Of This World.

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.

What Is Our Death But A Night's Sleep? For As Through Sleep All Weariness And Faintness Pass Away And Cease, And The Powers Of The Spirit Come Back Again, So That In The Morning We Arise Fresh And Strong And Joyous; So At The Last Day We Shall Rise Again As If We Had Only Slept A Night, And Shall Be Fresh And Strong.

The Multitude Of Books Is A Great Evil. There Is No Limit To This Fever For Writing.

What Is It To Serve God And To Do His Will? Nothing Else Than To Show Mercy To Our Neighbor. For It Is Our Own Neighbor Who Needs Our Service; God In Heaven Needs It Not.

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

Obedience Is The Crown And Honour Of All Virtue.

The Curses Of The Ungodly Are More Pleasing To God's Ears Than The Hallelujahs Of The Pious

A Large Number Of Deaf, Crippled And Blind People Are Afflicted Solely Through The Malice Of The Demon. And One Must In No Wise Doubt That Plagues, Fevers And Every Sort Of Evil Come From Him.

The Mystery Of The Humanity Of Christ, That He Sunk Himself Into Our Flesh, Is Beyond All Human Understanding.

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

Unthankfulness Is Theft.

The Hair Is The Finest Ornament Women Have. Of Old, Virgins Used To Wear It Loose, Except When They Were In Mourning.

To Worship God In Spirit Is The Service And Homage Of The Heart, And Implies Fear Of God And Trust In Him.

Those Who Turn Proud When Their Praise Is Sounded, Who Seek Their Own Glory, Not Christ's, Or Those Who Are Moved By Slanders And By Infamy, Had Better Leave The Ministry Of The Word.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The Devil Is God's Ape!

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

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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.

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.

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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.

When I Am Angry I Can Pray Well And Preach Well.

For It Is A Horrible Blasphemy To Imagine That There Is Any Work By Which You Should Presume To Pacify God, Since You See That There Is Nothing Which Is Able To Pacify Him But This Inestimable Price, Even The Death And The Blood Of The Son Of God, One Drop Of Which Is More Precious Than The Whole World.

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

Nothing On Earth Is So Well-suited To Make The Sad Merry, The Merry Sad, To Give Courage To The Despairing, To Make The Proud Humble, To Lessen Envy And Hate, As Music.

Take Away The Mass, Destroy The Church.

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The Great Event On Calvary . . . Is An Eternal Reminder To A Power Drunk Generation That Love Is The Most Durable Power In The World, And That It Is At Bottom The Heartbeat Of The Moral Cosmos. Only Through Achieving This Love Can You Expect To Matriculate Into The University Of Eternal Life.

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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.

Our Most Merciful Father, Seeing Us To Be Oppressed And Overwhelmed With The Curse Of The Law . . . Sent His Only Son Into The World And Laid Upon Him All The Sins Of All Men, Saying, 'you Be Peter That Denier, Paul That Persecutor, Blasphemer And Cruel Oppressor, David That Adulterer, That Sinner Who Ate The Apple In Paradise, That Thief Who Hung Upon The Cross, And Briefly, You Be The Person Who Has Committed The Sins Of All Men. See Therefore That You Pay And Satisfy For Them.'

They [rulers] Must Act Like A Good Physician Who, When Gangrene Has Set In Proceeds Without Mercy To Cut, Saw, And Burn Flesh, Veins, Bone, And Marrow. Such A Procedure Must Also Be Followed In This Instance. Burn Down Their Synagogues, Forbid All That I Enumerated Earlier, Force Them To Work, And Deal Harshly With Them, As Moses Did... If This Does Not Help We Must Drive Them Out Like Mad Dogs.

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Science Gives Man Knowledge Which Is Power; Religion Gives Man Wisdom Which Is Control.

I Have Undertaken To Translate The Bible Into German. This Was Good For Me; Otherwise I Might Have Died In The Mistaken Notion That I Was A Learned Fellow.

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

Sin Cannot Tear You Away From Him [christ] Even Though You Commit Adultery A Hundred Times A Day And Commit As Many Murders.

We Are Not Yet What We Shall Be, But We Are Growing Toward It, The Process Is Not Yet Finished.

For All Works And Things, Which Are Either Commanded Or Forbidden By God And Thus Have Been Instituted By The Supreme Majesty, Are 'musts.' Nevertheless, No One Should Be Dragged To Them Or Away From Them By The Hair, For I Can Drive No Man To Heaven Or Beat Him Into It With A Club.

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.

Jews And Papists Are Ungodly Wretches; They Are Two Stockings Made Of One Piece Of Cloth.

The Priest Is Not Made. He Must Be Born A Priest; Must Inherit His Office. I Refer To The New Birth-the Birth Of Water And The Spirit. Thus All Christians Must Became Priests, Children Of God And Co-heirs With Christ The Most High Priest.

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.

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 Mad Mob Does Not Ask How It Could Be Better, Only That It Be Different. And When It Then Becomes Worse, It Must Change Again. Thus They Get Bees For Flies, And At Last Hornets For Bees.

The Highest And Most Precious Treasure We Receive Of God Is, That We Can Speak, Hear, See, Etc.; But How Few Acknowledge These As God's Special Gifts, Much Less Give God Thanks For Them.

The Faith Towards God In Christ Must Be Sure And Steadfast, That It May Solace And Make Glad The Conscience, And Put It To Rest. When A Man Has This Certainty, He Has Overcome The Serpent; But If He Be Doubtful Of The Doctrine, It Is For Him Very Dangerous To Dispute With The Devil.

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.

Two Devils Rose From The Water, And Flew Off Through The Air, Crying, 'oh, Oh, Oh!' And Turning One Over Another, In Sportive Mockery.

Lord God...use Me As Your Instrument -- But Do Not Forsake Me, For If Ever I Should Be On My Own, I Would Easily Wreck It All.

Heaven And Earth, All The Emperors, Kings, And Princes Of The World, Could Not Raise A Fit Dwelling-place For God; Yet, In A Weak Human Soul, That Keeps His Word, He Willingly Resides.

The Whole Being Of Any Christian Is Faith And Love. Faith Brings The Person To God, Love Brings The Person To People.

The God Whom We Worship Is Not A Weak And Incompetent God. He Is Able To Beat Back Gigantic Waves Of Opposition And To Bring Low Prodigious Mountains Of Evil. The Ringing Testimony Of The Christian Faith Is That God Is Able.

When The Scripture Speaks, God Speaks

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

Being By His Faith Replaced Afresh In Paradise And Created Anew, He (the Believer)does Not Need Works For His Justification, But That He May Not Be Idle, But That He May Exercise His Own Body And Preserve It. His Works Are To Be Done Freely, With The Sole Object Of Pleasing God.

You See Then, That Diatribe Truly Possesses A Free Choice In Her Handling Of Scriptures, So That Words Of One And The Same Type Are For Her Obliged To Prove Endeavor In One Place And Freedom In Another, Exactly As She Pleases.

Pray Like It All Depends On God, Then When You Are Done, Go Work Like It All Depends On You.

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.

Blood Alone Moves The Wheels Of History.

We Are Not To Look Upon Our Sins As Insignificant Trifles. On The Other Hand, We Are Not To Regard Them As So Terrible That We Must Despair. Learn To Believe That Christ Was Given, Not For Picayune And Imaginary Transgressions, But For Mountainous Sins; Not For One Or Two, But For All; Not For Sins That Can Be Discarded, But For Sins That Are Stubbornly Ingrained.

At Poltersberg, There Is A Lake Similarly Cursed. If You Throw A Stone Into It, A Dreadful Storm Immediately Arises, And The Whole Neighboring District Quakes To Its Centre. 'tis The Devils Kept Prisoner There.

Unless I Am Convicted By Scripture And Plain Reason-i Do Not Accept The Authority Of Popes And Councils, For They Have Contradicted Each Other-my Conscience Is Captive To The Word Of God. I Cannot And Will Not Recant Anything, For To Go Against Conscience Is Neither Right Nor Safe. Here I Stand, I Cannot Do Otherwise. God Help Me. Amen.

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

The Devil, It Is True, Is Not Exactly A Doctor Who Has Taken Degrees, But He Is Very Learned, Very Expert For All That. He Has Not Been Carrying On His Business During Thousands Of Years For Nothing.

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.

I Compare It With A Lie, Which Like To A Snowball, The Longer It Is Rolled The Greater It Becomes.

Let Him Who Wants A True Church Cling To The Word By Which Everything Is Upheld.

Godly People Are Waiting For The Lord; Therefore They Live, Therefore They Are Saved, Therefore They Receive What Has Been Promised.

Truly Speech Has Wonderful Strength And Power, That Through A Mere Word, Proceeding Out Of The Mouth Of A Poor Human Creature, The Devil, That So Proud And Powerful Spirit, Should Be Driven Away, Shamed And Confounded.

You May As Well Quit Reading And Hearing The Word Of God, And Give It To The Devil, If You Do Not Desire To Live According To It.

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.

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

The Universities Only Ought To Turn Out Men Who Are Experts In The Holy Scriptures, Men Who Can Become Bishops And Priests, And Stand In The Front Line Against Heretics, The Devil, And All The World. But Where Do You Find That?

The Devil Won't Stay Where There Is Music.

Medicine Makes People Ill, Mathematics Make Them Sad And Theology Makes Them Sinful.

At Night Always Carry In Your Heart Something From Holy Scriptures To Bed With You, Meditate Upon It Like A Ruminant Animal, And Go Softly To Sleep; But This Must Not Be Too Much, Rather A Little That May Be Well Pondered And Understood, That You May Find A Remnant Of It In Your Mind When You Rise In The Morning.

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

Those Who Lapse From The Gospel To The Law Are No Better Off Than Those Who Lapse From Grace To Idolatry.

In The Bonds Of Death He Lay Who For Our Offence Was Slain; But The Lord Is Risen To-day, Christ Hath Brought Us Life Again, Wherefore Let Us All Rejoice, Singing Loud, With Cheerful Voice, Hallelujah!

Christ Is The Master; The Scriptures Are Only The Servant. The True Way To Test All The Books Is To See Whether They Work The Will Of Christ Or Not. No Book Which Does Not Preach Christ Can Be Apostolic, Though Peter Or Paul Were Its Author. And No Book Which Does Preach Christ Can Fail To Be Apostolic, Although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, Or Herod Were Its Author.

The Holy Spirit Has A Way Of His Own To Say Much In Few Words.

A Penny Saved Is Better Than A Penny Earned.

[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!

None Can Believe How Powerful Prayer Is, And What It Is Able To Effect, But Those Who Have Learned It By Experience.

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.

The Body They May Kill: God’s Truth Abideth Still, His Kingdom Is Forever.

Where Faith Is Not Continually Kept In Motion And Exercised, It Weakens And Decreases, So That It Must Indeed Vanish; And Yet We Do Not See Nor Feel This Weakness Ourselves, Except In Times Of Need And Temptation, When Unbelief Rages Too Strongly; And Yet For That Very Reason Faith Must Have Temptations In Which It May Battle And Grow.

The Bible Is A Remarkable Fountain: The More One Draws And Drinks Of It, The More It Stimulates Thirst.

God Uses Lust To Impel Men To Marry, Ambition To Office, Avarice To Earning, And Fear To Faith. God Led Me Like An Old Blind Goat.

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

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.

Grace Was Not Given To Heal The Spiritually Sick But To Decorate Spiritual Heroes!

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.

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, A Bulwark Never Failing: Our Helper He Amid The Flood Of Mortal Ills Prevailing.

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

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

The Pope Is A Mere Tormentor Of Conscience. The Assembly Of His Greased And Religious Crew In Praying Was Altogether Like The Croaking Of Frogs, Which Edified Nothing At All.

He Who Believes In God Is Not Careful For The Morrow, But Labors Joyfully And With A Great Heart. "for He Giveth His Beloved, As In Sleep." They Must Work And Watch, Yet Never Be Careful Or Anxious, But Commit All To Him, And Live In Serene Tranquility; With A Quiet Heart, As One Who Sleeps Safely And Quietly.

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

So Tenaciously Should We Cling To The World Revealed By The Gospel, That Were I To See All The Angels Of Heaven Coming Down To Me To Tell Me Something Different, Not Only Would I Not Be Tempted To Doubt A Single Syllable, But I Would Shut My Eyes And Stop My Ears, For They Would Not Deserve To Be Either Seen Or Heard.

For The Devil Is Better Pleased With Coarse Blockheads And With Folks Who Are Useful To Nobody; Because Where Such Characters Abound, Then Things Do Not Go On Prosperously Here On Earth.

Sheep, Cattle, Men-servants Were All Possessions To Be Sold As It Pleased Their Masters. It Were A Good Thing Were It Still So. For Else No Man May Compel Nor Tame The Servile Folk.

Faith Is Permitting Ourselves To Be Seized By The Things That We Do Not See.

An Angel Is A Spiritual Creature Created By God Without A Body, For The Service Of Christendom And Of The Church.

We Must Make A Great Difference Between God's Word And The Word Of Man. A Man's Word Is A Little Sound, That Flies Into The Air, And Soon Vanishes; But The Word Of God Is Greater Than Heaven And Earth, Yea, Greater Than Death And Hell, For It Forms Part Of The Power Of God, And Endures Everlastingly.

A Man Would Have To Be An Idiot To Write A Book Of Laws For An Apple Tree Telling It To Bear Apples And Not Thorns, Seeing That The Apple-tree Will Do It Naturally And Far Better Than Any Laws Or Teaching Can Prescribe.

God May Delay, But He Always Comes.

But Then Eject Them Forever From This Country. For, As We Have Heard, God's Anger With Them Is So Intense That Gentle Mercy Will Only Tend To Make Them Worse And Worse, While Sharp Mercy Will Reform Them But Little. Therefore, In Any Case, Away With Them!

Farewell Unhappy, Hopeless, Blasphemous Rome! The Wrath Of God Has Come Upon You, As You Deserve. We Cared For Babylon, And She Is Not Healed; Let Us Then Leave Her, That She May Become The Habitation Of Dragons, Spectres, And Witches.

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

Good Works Do Not Make A Good Man, But A Good Man Does Good Works.

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.

The Bible Is The Proper Book For Men. There The Truth Is Distinguished From Error Far More Clearly Than Anywhere Else, And One Finds Something New In It Every Day. For Twenty-eight Years, Since I Became A Doctor, I Have Now Constantly Read And Preached The Bible; And Yet I Have Not Exhausted It But Find Something New In It Every Day.

Christ And His Word Can Hardly Be Recognized Because Of The Great Vermin Of Human Ordinances. However, Let This Suffice For The Time Being On Their Lies Against Doctrine Or Faith.

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.

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.

I Did Not Learn My Theology All At Once, But Had To Search Constantly Deeper And Deeper For It. My Temptations Did That For Me, For No One Can Understand Holy Scripture Without Practice And Temptations...i T Is Not By Reading, Writing, Or Speculation That One Becomes A Theologian. Nay, Rather, It Is Living, Dying, And Being Damned That Makes One A Theologian.

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

May The Lord Fill You With His Blessings And With Hatred Of The Pope.

We Must Beat The Gospel Into Peoples' Heads Incessantly Because It's The One Thing We're Prone To Forget.

God Has Surely Promised His Grace To The Humbled: That Is, To Those Who Mourn Over And Despair Of Themselves. But A Man Cannot Be Thoroughly Humbled Till He Realizes That His Salvation Is Utterly Beyond His Own Powers, Counsels, Efforts, Will And Works, And Depends Absolutely On The Will, Counsel, Pleasure And Work Of Another -- God Alone.

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

The Multitude Of Books Is A Great Evil. There Is No Limit To This Fever For Writing; Every One Must Be An Author; Some Out Of Vanity, To Acquire Celebrity And Raise Up A Name, Others For The Sake Of Mere Gain.

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

As Is The Business Of Tailors To Make Clothes And Cobblers To Make Shoes, So It Is The Business Of Christians To Pray.

Remove Christ From The Scriptures And There Is Nothing Left.

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.

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

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

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

Be Thou Comforted, Little Dog, Thou Too In Resurrection Shall Have A Little Golden Tail.

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I Have So Much To Do Today That I Must Set Apart More Time Than Usual To Pray.

It Is Impossible For One Man Both To Labor Day And Night To Get A Living, And At The Same Time Give Himself To The Study Of Sacred Learning As The Preaching Office Requires.

The Secret Of Contentment Is The Realization That Life Is A Gift, Not A Right. Next To Faith This Is The Highest Art - To Be Content With The Calling In Which God Has Placed You.

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

Against The Flying Ball No Valor Avails.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Music Is One Of The Fairest And Most Glorious Gifts Of God.

A Man Must Be Able To Affirm, I Know For Certain, That What I Teach Is The Only Word Of The High Majesty Of God In Heaven, His Final Conclusion And Everlasting, Unchangeable Truth, And Whatsoever Concurs And Agrees Not With This Doctrine, Is Altogether False, And Spun By The Devil.

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

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.

In A Word, The Holy Scripture Is The Highest And Best Of Books, Abounding In Comfort Under All Afflictions And Trials. It Teaches Us To See, To Feel, To Grasp, And To Comprehend Faith, Hope, And Charity, Far Otherwise Than Mere Human Reason Can; And While Evil Oppresses Us, It Teaches How These Virtues Throw Light Upon The Darkness, And How, After This Poor, Miserable Existence Of Ours On Earth, There Is Another And An Eternal Life.

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

How Rich A God Our God Is! He Gives Enough, But We Don't Notice It. He Gave The Whole World To Adam, But This Was Nothing In Adam's Eyes; He Was Concerned About One Tree And Had To Ask Why God Had Forbidden Him To Eat It.

Astrology Is Framed By The Devil, To The End People May Be Scared From Entering Into The State Of Matrimony, And From Every Divine And Human Office And Calling.

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.

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.

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.

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