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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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Martin Luther

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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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Therefore The Blind Jews Are Truly Stupid Fools.

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

Temptations, Of Course, Cannot Be Avoided, But Because We Cannot Prevent The Birds From Flying Over Our Heads, There Is No Need That We Should Let Them Nest In Our Hair.

Great People And Champions Are Special Gifts Of God, Whom He Gives And Preserves; They Do Their Work, And Achieve Great Actions, Not With Vain Imaginations, Or Cold And Sleepy Cogitations, But By Motion Of God.

Strange, Though I Am Saved From Sin, I Am Not Saved From Sinning.

We Are At Fault For Not Slaying The Jews.

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.

The Heart Overflows With Gladness, And Leaps And Dances For The Joy It Has Found In God. In This Experience The Holy Spirit Is Active, And Has Taught Us In The Flash Of A Moment The Deep Secret Of Joy. You Will Have As Much Joy And Laughter In Life As You Have Faith In God.

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?

What Is Sought By Means Of Free Choice Is To Make Room For Merits.

[christ's] Mission And Work It Is To Help Against Sin And Death, To Justify And Bring Life. He Has Placed His Help In Baptism And The Sacrament [i.e., Communion/eucharist/lord's Supper], And Incorporated It In The Word And Preaching. To Our Eyes Baptism [capitalized In Original] Appears To Be Nothing More Than Ordinary Water, And The Sacrament Of Christ's Body And Blood Simple Bread And Wine, Like Other Bread And Wine, And The Sermon, Hot Air From A Man's Mouth. But We Must Not Trust What Our Eyes See.

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.

But Satan, The God Of All Dissension, Stirreth Up Daily New Sects, And Last Of All (which Of All Other I Should Never Have Foreseen Or Once Suspected) He Hath Raised Up A Sect Of Such As Teach That The Ten Commandments Ought To Be Taken Out Of The Church, And That Men Should Not Be Terrified With The Law, But Gently Exerted By The Preaching Of The Grace Of Christ.

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.

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.

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

Procrastination

God Can Be Found Only In Suffering And The Cross.

That The Creator Himself Comes To Us And Becomes Our Ransom - This Is The Reason For Our Rejoicing.

Anyone Who Can Be Proved To Be A Seditious Person Is An Outlaw Before God And The Emperor; And Whoever Is The First To Put Him To Death Does Right And Well. Therefore Let Everyone Who Can, Smite, Slay And Stab, Secretly Or Openly, Remembering That Nothing Can Be More Poisonous, Hurtful, Or Devilish Than A Rebel.

Sin Is Essentially A Departure From God.

Whenever I Have Prayed Earnestly, I Have Always Received More Than I Asked For. God May Delay, But He Always Comes.

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

So It Is With Human Reason, Which Strives Not Against Faith, When Enlightened, But Rather Furthers And Advances It.

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.

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

However, They Have Not Acquired A Perfect Mastery Of The Art Of Lying; They Lie So Clumsily And Ineptly That Anyone Who Is Just A Little Observant Can Easily Detect It. But For Us Christians They Stand As A Terrifying Example Of God's Wrath.

Christianity Can Be Summed Up In The Two Terms Faith And Love...receiving From Above [faith] And Giving Out Below [love].

A Christian Has No Need Of Any Law In Order To Be Saved, Since Through Faith We Are Free From Every Law. Thus All The Acts Of A Christian Are Done Spontaneously, Out Of A Sense Of Pure Liberty.

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

Our Suffering Is Not Worthy The Name Of Suffering. When I Consider My Crosses, Tribulations, And Temptations, I Shame Myself Almost To Death, Thinking What Are They In Comparison Of The Sufferings Of My Blessed Savior Christ Jesus.

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.

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.

For From The Error Of Not Knowing, Or Understanding, What Sin Is, There Necessarily Arises Another Error, That People Cannot Know Or Understand What Grace Is.

What Shall We Do With...the Jews?...i Advise That Safe-conduct On The Highways Be Abolished Completely For The Jews.

People Give Ear To An Upstart Astrologer [copernicus]...this Fool Wishes To Reverse The Entire Science Of Astronomy

To Be A Christian, You Must Pluck Out The Eye Of Reason.

To Comfort A Sorrowful Conscience Is Much Better Than To Possess Many Kngdoms; Yet The World Regards It Not; Nay, Condemns It, Calling Us Rebels, Dissturbers Of The Peace.

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.

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

The Devil Is God's Ape!

A Lie Is Like A Snowball: The Further You Roll It The Bigger It Becomes.

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

It Is Cheering To Note That [martin] Luther (1524) Did Not See Why Schools Should Not Be Fun As Well: "now Since The Young Must Leap And Jump, Or Have Something To Do, Because They Have A Natural Desire For It Which Should Not Be Restrained (for It Is Not Well To Check Them In Everything) Why Should We Not Provide For Them Such Schools, And Lay Before Them Such Studies?

Of All Deadly Sins, This Is The Most Deadly, Namely, That Any One Should Think He Is Not Guilty Of A Damnable And Deadly Sin Before God.

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.

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.

God Foreknows Nothing By Contingency, But That He Foresees, Purposes, And Does All Things According To His Immutable, Eternal, And Infallible Will. By This Thunderbolt, "free-will" Is Thrown Prostrate, And Utterly Dashed To Pieces.

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.

But Know That To Serve God Is Nothing Else Than To Serve Your Neighbor And Do Good To Him In Love, Be It A Child, Wife, Servant, Enemy, Friend....if You Do Not Find Yourself Among The Needy And The Poor, Where The Gospel Shows Us Christ, Then You May Know That Your Faith Is Not Right, And That You Have Not Yet Tasted Of Christ's Benevolence And Work For You.

Our Bodies Are Always Exposed To Satan. The Maladies I Suffer Are Not Natural, But Devil's Spells.

If Anyone Could Have Gained Heaven As A Monk, Then I Would Indeed Have Been Among Them.

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

Justice Is A Temporary Thing That Must At Last Come To An End; But The Conscience Is Eternal And Will Never Die.

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.

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.

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.

And I'll Tell You, I've Seen The Lightning Flash. I've Heard The Thunder Roll. I Felt Sin-breakers Dashing, Trying To Conquer My Soul. But I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Saying Still To Fight On. He Promised Never To Leave Me, Never To Leave Me Alone. No, Never Alone. He Promised Never To Leave Me, Never To Leave Me Alone.

Nothing Good Ever Comes Of Violence.

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.

The Bible Is Alive, It Speaks To Me; It Has Feet, It Runs After Me; It Has Hands, It Lays Hold Of Me.

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

I Have Before Me God's Word Which Cannot Fail, Nor Can The Gates Of Hell Prevail Against It; Thereby Will I Remain, Though The Whole World Be Against Me.

The Purpose Of Marriage Is Not To Have Pleasure And To Be Idle But To Procreate And Bring Up Children, To Support A Household. This, Of Course, Is A Huge Burden Full Of Great Cares And Toils. But You Have Been Created By God To Be A Husband Or A Wife And That You May Learn To Bear These Troubles.

Feelings Come And Feelings Go, And Feelings Are Deceiving; My Warrant Is The Word Of God-- Naught Else Is Worth Believing. Though All My Heart Should Feel Condemned For Want Of Some Sweet Token, There Is One Greater Than My Heart Whose Word Cannot Be Broken. I'll Trust In God's Unchanging Word Till Soul And Body Sever, For, Though All Things Shall Pass Away, His Word Shall Stand Forever!

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!

Cujus Region, Ejus Rligio (whoever's Reign, His Religion) ... He Who Owns The Country Owns The Church, And He That Makes Your Laws For You Has The Right To Make Your Religion For You.

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

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.

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.

Know That No One Can Have Indulged In The Holy Writers Sufficiently, Unless He Has Governed Churches For A Hundred Years With The Prophets, Such As Elijah And Elisha, John The Baptist, Christ And The Apostles... We Are Beggars: This Is True.

The Gospel Is Nothing Less Than Laughter And Joy.

Laughter And Joy

The Recognition Of Sin Is The Beginning Of Salvation

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.

Music Is To Be Praised As Second Only To The Word Of God Because By Her All The Emotions Are Swayed. That Is Why There Are So Many Songs And Psalms. This Precious Gift Has Been Bestowed On Men Alone To Remind Them That They Are Created To Praise And Magnify The Lord.

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

God May Delay, But He Always Comes.

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.

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.

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

When Questioned Whether The Blessed Will Not Be Saddened By Seeing Their Nearest And Dearest Tortured Answers, "not In The Least."

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.

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.

Music Is A Discipline, And A Mistress Of Order And Good Manners, She Makes The People Milder And Gentler, More Moral And More Reasonable.

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.

A Man Must Completely Despair Of Himself In Order To Become Fit To Obtain The Grace Of Christ.

Adam And Eve Derived The Fullness Of Joy And Bliss From Their Contemplation Of All The Animal Creatures.

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 Heart Of Religion Lies In Its Personal Pronouns.

The Devil Won't Stay Where There Is Music.

If I Could Believe That God Was Not Angry With Me, I Would Stand On My Head For Joy.

For What God Gives I Thank Indeed; What He Withholds I Do Not Need

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

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.

Prayer Is Climbing Up Into The Heart Of God.

Despair Makes Priests And Friars.

A Wicked Tyrant Is Better Than A Wicked War.

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

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

The Church Converteth The Whole World By Blood And Prayer.

God's Mark Is On Everything That Obeys Him.

A Man Cannot Do Good Before He Is Made Good.

True Humility Does Not Know That It Is Humble. If It Did, It Would Be Proud From The Contemplation Of So Fine A Virtue.

Heretics Are Not To Be Disputed With, But To Be Condemned Unheard, And Whilst They Perish By Fire, The Faithful Ought To Pursue The Evil To Its Source, And Bathe Their Heads In The Blood Of The Catholic Bishops, And Of The Pope, Who Is The Devil In Disguise.

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.

As When My Little Son John Offendeth: If Then I Should Not Whip Him, But Call Him To The Table Unto Me, And Give Him Sugar And Plums, Thereby, I Should Make Him Worse, Yea Should Quite Spoil Him.

False Preachers Are Worse Than Deflowerers Of Virgins.

[our] Plan Is To Follow The Example Of The Prophets And The Ancient Fathers Of The Church, And To Compose Psalms...so That The Word Of God May Be Among The People Also In The Form Of Music.

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.

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

It Is A Miracle How God Has So Long Preserved His Book! How Great And Glorious It Is To Have The Word Of God!

Believest Thou? Then Thou Wilt Speak Boldly. Speakest Thou Boldy? Then Thou Must Suffer. Sufferest Thou? Then Thou Shalt Be Comforted. For Faith, The Confession Thereof, And The Cross Do Follow One Another.

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.

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.

How Great, Therefore, The Wickedness Of Human Nature Is! How Many Girls There Are Who Prevent Conception And Kill And Expel Tender Fetuses, Although Procreation Is The Work Of God.

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

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.

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

I More Fear What Is Within Me Than What Comes From Without.

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

The Less I Pray, The Harder It Gets; The More I Pray, The Better It Goes.

I Would Rather Obey Than Work Miracles.

Mary Was Not Only Holy. She Was Also The Mother Of The Lord.

The Devil, Too, Sometimes Steals Human Children; It Is Not Infrequent For Him To Carry Away Infants Within The First Six Weeks After Birth, And To Substitute In Their Place Imps.

Great God, What Do I See And Hear! The End Of Things Created! The Judge Of Mankind Doth Appear On Clouds Of Glory Seated! The Trumpet Sounds; The Graves Restore, The Dead Which They Contained Before; Prepare, My Soul, To Meet Him!

[the Psalms Are] A Little Bible, Wherein Everything Contained In The Entire Bible Is Beautifully And Briefly Comprehended.

Take This To Heart And Doubt Not That You Are The One Who Killed Christ. Your Sins Certainly Did, And When You See The Nails Driven Through His Hands, Be Sure That You Are Pondering, And When The Thorns Pierce His Brow, Know That They Are Your Evil Thoughts.

You Should Point To The Whole Man Jesus And Say, That Is God.

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

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.

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

People Gave Ear To An Upstart Astrologer Who Strove To Show That The Earth Revolves, Not The Heavens Or The Firmament, The Sun And The Moon....this Fool Wishes To Reverse The Entire Science Of Astronomy; But Sacred Scripture Tells Us [joshua 10:13]that Joshua Commanded The Sun To Stand Still, And Not The Earth.

You Have As Much Laughter As You Have Faith.

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

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

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.

Amen Meaneth Assuredly, Namely, That I Am Sure That Petitions Of This Kind Are Accepted By My Heavenly Father, And Heard By Him, Because He Hath Commanded Us, That We Should Pray After This Manner, And Hath Promised That He Will Hear Us. Amen, Amen: That Is, Truly, Certainly, So Be It.

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.

The Irony Is I Stopped Going To Church A Few Weeks Later.

Going To Church

What Will You Do In The Mundane Days Of Faithfulness?

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.

Divinity Consists In Use And Practice, Not In Speculation.

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

Greatest Treasure

I Cannot Neglect Prayer For A Single Day.

My Conscience Is Captive To The Word Of God

In Short, I Will Preach It [the Word], Teach It, Write It, But I Will Constrain No Man By Force, For Faith Must Come Freely Without Compulsion. Take Myself As An Example. I Opposed Indulgences And All The Papists, But Never With Force. I Simply Taught, Preached, And Wrote God's Word; Otherwise I Did Nothing. And While I Slept, Or Drank Wittenberg Beer With My Friends Philip And Amsdorf, The Word So Greatly Weakened The Papacy That No Prince Or Emperor Ever Inflicted Such Losses Upon It. I Did Nothing; The Word Did Everything.

We Old Folks Have To Find Our Cushions And Pillows In Our Tankards. Strong Beer Is The Milk Of The Old.

The Will Of Man Without Grace Is Not Free, But Is Enslaved, And That Too With Its Own Consent.

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

I Have No Pleasure In Any Man Who Despises Music. It Is No Invention Of Ours: It Is A Gift Of God. I Place It Next To Theology. Satan Hates Music: He Knows How It Drives The Evil Spirit Out Of Us.

My Temptations Have Been My Masters Of Divinity.

The Holy Spirit Is No Skeptic, & The Things He Has Written In Our Hearts Are Not Doubts Or Opinions, But Assertions - Surer & More Certain Than Sense & Life Itself.

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

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

People Go Through Three Conversions: The Conversion Of Their Head, Their Heart, And Their Pocketbook. Unfortunately, Not All At The Same Time.

A Penny Saved Is Better Than A Penny Earned.

Bewilderment Is The True Comprehension. Not To Know Where You Are Going Is The True Knowledge.

Where You Are Going

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.

Here I Stand; I Can Do No Other.

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.

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

Peter Erred In Life And In Doctrine. Paul Might Have Dismissed Peter's Error As A Matter Of No Consequence. But Paul Saw That Peter's Error Would Lead To The Damage Of The Whole Church Unless It Were Corrected. Therefore He Withstood Peter To His Face. The Church, Peter, The Apostles, Angels From Heaven, Are Not To Be Heard Unless They Teach The Genuine Word Of God.

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

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

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.

Let Whatsoever Will Or Can Befall Me, I Will Surely Cleave By My Sweet Savior Christ Jesus, For In Him Am I Baptized; I Can Neither Do Nor Know Anything But Only What He Has Taught Me.

To Have Peace And Love In Marriage Is A Gift Which Is Next To The Knowledge Of The Gospel.

When Satan Tells Me I Am A Sinner He Comforts Me Immeasurably, Since Christ Died For Sinners.

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.

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.

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?

We Ought First To Know That There Are No Good Works Except Those Which God Has Commanded, Even As There Is No Sin Except That Which God Has Forbidden.

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 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.

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

Whoever Does Not Know God Hidden In Suffering Does Not Know God At All.

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.

All Our Experience With History Should Teach Us, When We Look Back, How Badly Human Wisdom Is Betrayed When It Relies On Itself

I Have So Much To Do Today, I'll Need To Spend Another Hour On My Knees.

They Are Trying To Make Me Into A Fixed Star. I Am An Irregular Planet.

I Must Remain A Child And Pupil Of The Catechism, And Am Glad So To Remain.

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

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.

A Just Law Is A Man-made Code That Squares With The Moral Law Or The Law Of God. An Unjust Law Is A Code That Is Out Of Harmony With The Moral Law. To Put It In The Terms Of Saint Thomas Aquinas, An Unjust Law Is A Human Law That Is Not Rooted In Eternal And Natural Law.

All Of A Christian's Life Is One Of Repentance.

But What Will Happen Even If We Do Burn Down The Jews Synagogues And Forbid Them Publicly To Praise God, To Pray, To Teach, To Utter God's Name? They Will Still Keep Doing It In Secret. If We Know That They Are Doing This In Secret, It Is The Same As If They Were Doing It Publicly. For Our Knowledge Of Their Secret Doings And Our Toleration Of Them Implies That They Are Not Secret After All And Thus Our Conscience Is Encumbered With It Before God.

War Is The Greatest Plague That Can Afflict Humanity, It Destroys Religion, It Destroys States, It Destroys Families. Any Scourge Is Preferable To It.

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.

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.

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

The Offering Of [the Body] Is Called A Spiritual Sacrifice Because It Is Freely Sacrificed Through The Spirit, The Christian Being Uninfluenced By The Constrainst Of The Low Or The Fear Of Hell.

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

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.

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.

There Are Three Conversions Necessary (for The Christian Life): The Conversion Of The Heart, The Mind, And The Purse.

If God Were Willing To Sell His Grace, We Would Accept It More Quickly And Gladly Than When He Offers It For Nothing.

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

Jesus Christ Never Died For Our Good Works. They Were Not Worth Dying For. But He Gave Himself For Our Sins, According To The Scriptures.

God Indeed Tempteth No Man; But Yet We Ask, In This Petition, That He Would Keep And Preserve Us, Lest The Devil, The World, And Our Own Flesh Delude And Draw Us Away From The True Faith, And Throw Us Into Superstition, Distrust, Despair, And Other Grievous Sins And Wickedness; And That, If We Should Be Tempted Therewith Even To The Highest Degree, We Still May Conquer, And At Last Triumph Over Them.

Christians Are Rare People On Earth.

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.

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