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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.

-Martin Luther

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The Kingdom Of God

Martin Luther

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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.

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

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.

To Progress Is Always To Begin Always To Begin Again

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.

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

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.

As For The Demented, I Hold It Certain That All Beings Deprived Of Reason Are Thus Afflicted Only By The Devil.

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.

The Worship Of God....should Be Free At Table, In Private Rooms, Downstairs, Upstairs, At Home, Abroad, In All Places, By All Peoples, At All Times

I Am Much Afraid That The Schools Will Prove The Very Gates Of Hell, Unless They Diligently Labour In Explaining The Holy Scriptures, And Engraving Them In The Hearts Of Youth. I Advise No One To Place His Child Where The Scriptures Do Not Reign Paramount. Every Institution In Which Means Are Not Unceasingly Occupied With The Word Of God Must Be Corrupt.

I Have So Much To Do That I Shall Spend The First Three Hours In Prayer.

God Doesn't Slack His Promises Because Of Our Sins Or Hasten Them Because Of Our Righteousness. He Pays No Attention To Either.

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

The Confidence And Faith Of The Heart Alone Make Both God And An Idol. If Your Faith And Trust Be Right, Then Is Your God Also True; And, On The Other Hand, If Your Trust Be False And Wrong, Then You Have Not The True God; For These Two Belong Together Faith And God. That Now, I Say, Upon Which You Set Your Heart And Put Your Trust Is Properly Your God.

I Have Held Many Things In My Hands, And I Have Lost Them All; But Whatever I Have Placed In God's Hands, That I Still Possess.

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

Is It Not Wonderful News To Believe That Salvation Lies Outside Ourselves?

The More A Person Loves, The Closer He Approaches The Image Of God.

Every Country Must Have Its Own Devil. Welshland Its Own, And France Its Own. Our German Devil Will Be A Good Wind-pipe, And Must Be Called Drinking, Being So Thirsty And Hell-like That No Guzzling Of Wine And Beer, However Large, Will Cool It Off, And I Fear That Such Will Ever Remain Germany's Plague, Until The Day Of Judgment.

Let The Wife Make The Husband Glad To Come Home, And Let Him Make Her Sorry To See Him Leave.

Through Faith We Are Restored To Paradise And Created Anew. We Have No Need Of Works In Order To Be Righteous; However, In Order To Avoid Idleness And So That The Body Might Be Cared For An Disciplined, Works Are Done Freely To Please God.

Prayer Is A Strong Wall And Fortress Of The Church; It Is A Goodly Christian Weapon.

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

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

If I Profess With Loudest Voice And Clearest Exposition Every Portion Of The Truth Of God Except That Little Point Which The World And The Devil Are At That Moment Attacking, I Am Not Confessing Christ, However Boldly I May Be Professing Christ. Where The Battle Rages, There The Loyalty Of The Soldier Is Proved, And To Be Steady On All The Battlefield Besides, Is Mere Flight And Disgrace If He Flinches At That Point.

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.

It Is God Who Creates, Effects, And Preserves All Things Through His Almighty.

The Law Works Fear And Wrath; Grace Works Hope And Mercy.

At The Center Of The Christian Faith Is The Affirmation That There Is A God In The Universe Who Is The Ground And Essence Of All Reality. A Being Of Infinite Love And Boundless Power, God Is The Creator, Sustainer, And Conserver Of Values....in Contrast To The Ethical Relativism Of [totalitarianism], Christianity Sets Forth A System Of Absolute Moral Values And Affirms That God Has Placed Within The Very Structure Of This Universe Certain Moral Principles That Are Fixed And Immutable.

That Which The Sober Man Keeps In His Breast, The Drunken Man Lets Out At The Lips. Astute People, When They Want To Ascertain A Man's True Character, Make Him Drunk.

Faith Is A Living, Daring Confidence In God's Grace, So Sure And Certain That The Believer Would Stake His Life On It A Thousand Times.

Music Is A Fair And Glorious Gift Of God. I Am Strongly Persuaded That After Theology, There Is No Art Which Can Be Placed On The Level With Music.

The Church Converteth The Whole World By Blood And Prayer.

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.

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

Thoughts Are Not Subject To Duty.

We Should Die Relying On Grace Alone

It Is A Good Thing To Let Prayer Be The First Business In The Morning And The Last In The Evening. Guard Yourself Against Such False And Deceitful Thoughts That Keep Whispering, "wait A While. In An Hour Or So I Will Pray. I Must First Finish This Or That." Thinking Such Thoughts We Get Away From Prayer Into Other Things That Will Hold Us And Involve Us Till The Prayer Of The Day Comes To Naught.

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

This Is True Faith, A Living Confidence In The Goodness Of God.

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.

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.

You Are Not Only Responsible For What You Say, But Also For What You Do Not Say

Inspirational Kindness

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

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.

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.

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.

From You, My Dear Erasmus, Let Me Obtain This Request, That Just As I Bear With Your Ignorance In These Matters, So You In Turn Will Bear With My Lack Of Eloquence.

I Did Nothing. The Word Did It All.

The Gospel Cannot Be Preached And Heard Enough, For It Cannot Be Grasped Well Enough.

We Know, On The Authority Of Moses, That Longer Than Six Thousand Years The World Did Not Exist.

Pray, And Let God Worry.

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!

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All Creatures Are Merely Veils Under Which God Hides Himself And Deals With Us.

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Rough, Boisterous, Stormy And Altogether Warlike, I Am Born To Fight Against Innumerable Monsters And Devils.

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

I Have No Use For Cranks Who Despise Music, Because It Is A Gift Of God. Music Drives Away The Devil And Makes People Joyful; They Forget Thereby All Wrath, Unchastity, Arrogance, And The Like. Next After Theology, I Give To Music The Highest Place And The Greatest Honor.

May A Merciful God Preserve Me From A Christian Church In Which Everyone Is A Saint! I Want To Be And Remain In The Church And Little Flock Of The Fainthearted, The Feeble And The Ailing, Who Feel And Recognize The Wretchedness Of Their Sins, Who Sigh And Cry To God Incessantly For Comfort And Help, Who Believe In The Forgiveness Of Sins.

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

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.

Whoever Teaches Differently From What I Have Taught, Or Whoever Condemns Me Therein, He Condemns God And Must Remain A Child Of Hell.

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

The Quest For Glory Can Never Be Satisfied, It Must Be Extinguished.

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

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.

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.

Those Speak Foolishly Who Ascribe Their Anger Or Their Impatience To Such As Offend Them Or To Tribulation. Tribulation Does Not Make People Impatient, But Proves That They Are Impatient. So Everyone May Learn From Tribulation How His Heart Is Constituted.

The Deceiver Can Magnify A Little Sin For The Purpose Of Causing One To Worry, Torture, And Kill Oneself With It. This Is Why A Christian Should Learn Not To Let Anyone Easily Create An Evil Conscience In Him. Rather Let Him Say, "this Error And This Failing Pass Away With My Other Imperfections And Sins, Which I Must Include In The Article Of Faith: I Believe In The Forgiveness Of Sins.

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

I Had Rather Be In Hell With Christ, Than Be In Heaven Without Him.

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

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.

Ah, If I Could Only Pray The Way That Dog Looks At Meat.

When Jesus Christ Utters A Word, He Opens His Mouth So Wide That It Embraces All Heaven And Earth, Even Though That Word Be But In A Whisper.

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.

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

Wer Nicht Liebt Wein,weib Und Gesang, Der Bleibt Ein Narr Sein Leben Lang. Who Loves Not Woman, Wine And Song Remains A Fool His Whole Life Long.

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

Nothing In The World Causes So Much Misery As Uncertainty.

I Do Not Deny That Medicine Is A Gift Of God, Nor Do I Refuse To Acknowledge Science In The Skill Of Many Physicians; But, Take The Best Of Them, How Far Are They From Perfection? A Sound Regimen Produces Excellent Effects. When I Feel Indisposed, By Observing A Strict Diet And Going To Bed Early, I Generally Manage To Get Round Again, That Is, If I Can Keep My Mind Tolerably At Rest. I Have No Objection To The Doctors Acting Upon Certain Theories, But, At The Same Time, They Must Not Expect Us To Be The Slaves Of Their Fancies.

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.

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.

Christ Is No Moses, No Exactor, No Giver Of Laws, But A Giver Of Grace, A Savior; He Is Infinite Mercy And Goodness, Freely And Bountifully Given To Us.

In The Midst Of The Affliction He Counsels, Strengthens Confirms, Nourishes, And Favors Us.... More Over, When We Have Repented, He Instantly Remits The Sins As Well As The Punishments. In The Same Manner Parents Ought To Handle Their Children.

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

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.

Holy Christendom Has, In My Judgment, No Better Teacher After The Apostles Than St. Augustine.

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.

Each Betrayal Begins With Trust.

Betraying Friends

A Simple Man With Scripture Has More Authority Than The Pope Or A Council.

God Is Entirely And Personally Present In The Wilderness, In The Garden, In The Field.

Accordingly If The Devil Should Say, 'do Not Drink,' You Should Reply To Him, 'on This Very Account, Because You Forbid It, I Shall Drink, And What Is More, I Shall Drink A Generous Amount. Thus One Must Always Do The Opposite Of That Which Satan Prohibits. What Do You Think Is My Reason For Drinking Wine Undiluted, Talking Freely, And Eating More Often, If It Is Not To Torment And Vex The Devil Who Made Up His Mind To Torment And Vex Me.

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.

Whatever Your Heart Clings To And Confides In, That Is Really Your God, Your Functional Savior.

The Inner Man Cannot Be Forced To Do Out Of His Own Free Will, What He Should Do, Except The Grace Of God Change The Heart And Make It Willing.

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.

When I Was A Child There Were Many Witches, And They Bewitched Both Cattle And Men, Especially Children.

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

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.

Exhort Your Household To Learn [the Ten Commandments] Word For Word, That They Should Obey God…for If You Teach And Urge Your Families Things Will Go Forward.

A Religion That Gives Nothing, Costs Nothing, And Suffers Nothing, Is Worth Nothing.

False Preachers Are Worse Than Deflowerers Of Virgins.

Teaching Is Of More Importance Than Urging.

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.

Let All The 'free-will' In The World Do All It Can With All Its Strength; It Will Never Give Rise To A Single Instance Of Ability To Avoid Being Hardened If God Does Not Give The Spirit, Or Of Meriting Mercy If It Is Left To Its Own Strength.

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

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

A Wicked Tyrant Is Better Than A Wicked War.

Many Demons Are In Woods, In Waters, In Wildernesses, And In Dark Poolly Places Ready To Hurt And Prejudice People; Some Are Also In The Thick Black Clouds, Which Cause Hail, Lightning And Thunder, And Poison The Air, The Pastures And Grounds.

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

The Best Way To Get Rid Of The Devil, If You Cannot Kill It With The Words Of Holy Scripture, Is To Rail At And Mock Him. Music, Too, Is Very Good; Music Is Hateful To Him, And Drives Him Far Away.

We May Search Long To Find Where God Is, But We Shall Find Him In Those Who Keep The Words Of Christ. For The Lord Christ Saith, " If Any Man Love Me, He Will Keep My Words; And We Will Make Our Abode With Him.

What Will You Do In The Mundane Days Of Faithfulness?

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.

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

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.

If I Had To Baptise A Jew, I Would Take Him To The Bridge Of The Elbe, Hang A Stone Around His Neck And Push Him Over With The Words 'i Baptise Thee In The Name Of Abraham'.

When Asked What He Would Do If He Knew The World Would End Tomorrow, Martin Luther Said, "i Would Plant A Tree."

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.

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.

Christ Designed That The Day Of His Coming Should Be Hid From Us, That Being In Suspense, We Might Be As It Were Upon The Watch.

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.

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.

I Have Such Hatred Of Divorce That I Prefer Bigamy To Divorce. Anyway, I Think We Should See Other People.

God Is Not A God Of Sadness, Death, Etc., But The Devil Is. Christ Is A God Of Joy, And So The Scriptures Often Say That We Should Rejoice ... A Christian Should And Must Be A Cheerful Person.

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.

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.

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.'

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

There Never Yet Have Been, Nor Are There Now, Too Many Good Books.

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

Married Love Burns As Fire, And Seeks Nothing More Than The Mate. It Says, "i Want Only You"

Here Again You Confuse And Mix Everything Up In Your Usual Way.

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

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

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.

While We Contemplate In All Creatures, As In A Mirror, Those Immense Riches Of His Wisdom, Justice, Goodness And Power, We Should Not Meerly Run Them Over Cursorily, And, So To Speak, With A Fleeting Glance, But We Should Ponder Them At Length, Turn Them Over In Our Mind Seriously And Faithfully And Recollect Them Repeatedly.

No Gown Worse Becomes A Woman Than The Desire To Be Wise.

Whatever Man Loves, That Is His God. For He Carries It In His Heart; He Goes About With It Night And Day; He Sleeps And Wakes With It, Be It What It May - Wealth Or Self, Pleasure Or Renown.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Twas A Special Gift Of God That Speech Was Given To Mankind; For Through The Word, And Not By Force, Wisdom Governs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every Doer Of The Law And Every Moral Worker Is Accursed, For He Walketh In The Presumption Of His Own Righteousness.

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.

Spare The Rod And Spoil The Child - That Is True. But, Beside The Rod, Keep An Apple To Give Him When He Has Done Well.

The Will Is A Beast Of Burden. If God Mounts It, It Wishes And Goes As God Wills; If Satan Mounts It, It Wishes And Goes As Satan Wills; Nor Can It Choose Its Rider... The Riders Contend For Its Possession.

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

You Should Not Believe Your Conscience And Your Feelings More Than The Word Which The Lord Who Receives Sinners Preaches To You.

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.

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

When My Heart Is Cold And I Cannot Pray As I Should I Scourge Myself With The Thought Of The Impiety And Ingratitude Of My Enemies, The Pope And His Accomplices And Vermin, And Zwingli, So That My Heart Swells With The Righteous Indignation And Hatred And I Can Say With Warmth And Vehemence: 'holy Be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done!' And The Hotter I Grow The More Ardent Do My Prayers Become.

If It Were Art To Overcome Heresy With Fire, The Executioners Would Be The Most Learned Doctors On Earth.

‎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.

The Jews Are The Most Miserable People On Earth. They Are Plagued Everywhere, And Scattered About All Countries, Having No Certain Resting Place. They Sit As On A Wheelbarrow, Without A Country, People Or Government... But They Are Rightly Served, For Seeing They Refused Have Christ And His Gospel, Instead Of Freedom They Must Have Servitude.

Pure Christian Love Is Not Derived From The Merit Of The Object.

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

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.

I Was Born To Fight Devils And Factions. It Is My Business To Remove Obstacles, To Cut Down Thorns, To Fill Up Quagmires And To Open And Make Straight Paths. If I Must Have Some Failing Let Me Rather Speak The Truth With Too Great Sincerity Than Once To Act The Hypocrite And Conceal The Truth.

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

Reason Is The Enemy Of Faith.

The Devil Is Not Only A Liar, But Also A Murderer, He Constantly Seeks Our Life, And Wreaks His Anger Whenever He Can Afflict Our Bodies With Misfortune And Harm. Hence It Comes That He Often Breaks Men's Necks Or Drives Them To Insanity, Drowns Some, And Incites Many To Commit Suicide, And To Many Other Terrible Calamities. Therefore There Is Nothing For Us To Do Upon Earth But To Pray Against This Arch Enemy Without Ceasing. For Unless God Preserved Us, We Would Not Be Safe From Him Even For An Hour.

The Truth Of The Matter Is Rather As Christ Says, "he Who Is Not With Me Is Against Me." ... He Does Not Say "he Who Is Not With Me Is Not Against Me Either, But Merely Neutral.

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.

To Gather With God's People In United Adoration Of The Father Is As Necessary To The Christian Life As Prayer.

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.

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

The Saved Are Singled Out Not By Their Own Merits, But By The Grace Of The Mediator.

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.

I Have So Many Things To Do Today, I Dare Not Ignore My Time With God.

There Is On Earth Among All Dangers, No More Dangerous Thing Than A Richly Endowed And Adroid Reason, Especially If She Enters Into Spiritual Matters Which Concern The Soul And God. For It Is More Possible To Teach An Ass To Read Than To Blind Such A Reason And Lead It Right; For Reason Must Be Deluded, Blinded, And Destroyed.

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 .

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

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

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.

A Christian Is Never In A State Of Completion But Always In A Process Of Becoming.

All Laws And Philosophy Merely Tell Us What Should Be Done, But They Do Not Provide The Strength To Do It.

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.

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

Your God Is Altogether Too Human.

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

One Book Is Enough, But A Thousand Books Is Not Too Many!

We Find No Rest For Our Weary Bones Unless We Cling To The Word Of Grace.

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

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.

It Is The Duty Of A Prudent Minister Of God To Hold His Ministry In Honor And To See To It That It Is Respected By Those Who Are In His Charge. Moreoever, It Is The Duty Of A Faithful Minister Not To Exceed His Powers And Not To Abuse His Office In Pride, But, Rather, To Administer It For The Benefit Of His Subjects.

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

A Dairymaid Can Milk Cows To The Glory Of God

Forgiveness Is God's Command.

Dearest Jesus, Holy Child, Make Thee A Bed, Soft, Undefiled, Within My Heart, That It May Be A Quiet Chamber Kept For Thee.

All We Who Believe On Christ Are Kings And Priests In Christ.

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