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

-Martin Luther

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The World Doesn't Want

Martin Luther

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

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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.

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

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

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.

Albert Durer, The Famous Painter, Used To Say He Had No Pleasure In Pictures That Were Painted With Many Colors, But In Those Which Were Painted With A Choice Simplicity. So It Is With Me As To Sermons.

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

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

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

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

Some Will Object That The Law Is Divine And Holy. Let It Be Divine And Holy. The Law Has No Right To Tell Me That I Must Be Justified By It.

Always Preach In Such A Way That If The People Listening Do Not Come To Hate Their Sin, They Will Instead Hate You

The Church Converteth The Whole World By Blood And Prayer.

Nothing Is More Beautiful In The Eyes Of God Than A Soul That Loves To Hear His Word.

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.

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

As Long As We Live There Is Never Enough Singing.

I Know Not The Way God Leads Me, But Well Do I Know My Guide.

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

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.

Pray, And Let God Worry.

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.

It Hath Been Said, That There Is Of Nothing So Much In Hell As Of Self-will. The Which Is True, For There Is Nothing Else There Than Self-will, And If There Were No Self-will, There Would Be No Devil And No Hell. When It Is Said That Lucifer Fell From Heaven, And Turned Away From God And The Like, It Meaneth Nothing Else Than That He Would Have His Own Will, And Would Not Be At One With The Eternal Will. So Was It Likewise With Adam In Paradise. And When We Say Self-will, We Mean, To Will Otherwise Than As The One And Eternal Will Of God Willeth.

Whilst A Man Is Persuaded That He Has It In His Power To Contribute Anything, Be It Ever So Little, To His Salvation, He Remains In Carnal Self-confidence; He Is Not A Self-despairer, And Therefore Is Not Duly Humbled Before God, He Believes He May Lend A Helping Hand In His Salvation, But On The Contrary, Whoever Is Truly Convinced That The Whole Work Depends Singly On The Will Of God, Such A Person Renounces His Own Will And Strength; He Waits And Prays For The Operation Of God, Nor Waits And Prays In Vain

Self Confidence

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.

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

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.

There Are Only Two Days On My Calendar... Today And The Day Of Judgment

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.

This Doctrine (justification) Is The Head And The Cornerstone. It Alone Begets, Nourishes, Builds, Preserves, And Defends The Church Of God And Without It The Church Of God Cannot Exist For One Hour.

One Is Not Righteous Who Does Much, But The One Who, Without Work, Believes Much In Christ. The Law Says, 'do This,' And It Is Never Done. Grace Says, 'believe In This,' And Everything Is Already Done.

False Preachers Are Worse Than Deflowerers Of Virgins.

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.

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

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

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

There Is No Gown Or Garment That Worse Becomes A Woman Than When She Will Be Wise.

Once Sure That The Doctrine We Teach Is God's Word, Once Certain Of This, We May Build Thereupon, And Know That This Cause Shall And Must Remain; The Devil Shall Not Be Able To Overthrow It, Much Less The World Be Able To Uproot It, How Fiercely Soever It Rage.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Anyone Who Is To Find Christ Must First Find The Church. How Could Anyone Know Where Christ Is And What Faith Is In Him Unless He Knew Where His Believers Are?

Original Sin Is In Us Like Our Beard. We Are Shaved Today And Look Clean; Tomorrow Our Beard Has Grown Again, Nor Does It Cease Growing While We Remain On Earth. In Like Manner Original Sin Cannot Be Extirpated From Us; It Springs Up In Us As Long As We Live.

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.

For Where God Built A Church, There The Devil Would Also Build A Chapel.

Unto Him Who Is Able To Keep Us From Falling, And Lift Us From The Dark To The Bright Mountain Of Hope, From The Midnight Of Desperation To The Daybreak Of Joy, To Him Be Power And Authority For Ever And Ever.

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.

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

If You Could Understand A Single Grain Of Wheat You Would Die Of Wonder.

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

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.

A Christian Is Free And Independent In Every Respect, A Bond Servant To None. A Christian Is A Dutiful Servant In Every Respect, Owing A Duty To Everyone.

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

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

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

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

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

The Fool Will Upset The Whole Science Of Astronomy.

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.

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.

God Does Not Save Those Who Are Only Imaginary Sinners. Be A Sinner, And Let Your Sins Be Strong (sin Boldly), But Let Your Trust In Christ Be Stronger, And Rejoice In Christ Who Is The Victor Over Sin, Death, And The World. We Will Commit Sins While We Are Here, For This Life Is Not A Place Where Justice Resides. We, However, ... Are Looking Forward To A New Heaven And A New Earth Where Justice Will Reign.

The Sin Underneath All Our Sins Is To Trust The Lie Of The Serpent That We Cannot Trust The Love And Grace Of Christ And Must Take Matters Into Our Own Hands

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.

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

[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!

‎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.

You Have As Much Laughter As You Have Faith.

God's Mark Is On Everything That Obeys Him.

A Preacher Should Have The Skill To Teach The Unlearned Simply Roundly, And Plainly; For Teaching Is Of More Importance Than Exhorting.

Our Lord God Doeth Work Like A Printer Who Setteth The Letters Backwards; We See And Feel Well His Setting, But We Shall See The Print Yonder - In The Life To Come.

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.

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.

Though In Midst Of Life We Be Snares Of Death Surround Us.

Your Thoughts Of God Are Too Human

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

Over Against The Devil And His Missionaries, The Authors Of False Doctrines And Sects, We Ought To Be Like The Apostle, Impatient, And Rigorously Condemnatory, As Parents Are With The Dog That Bites Their Little One, But The Weeping Child Itself They Soothe.

Even Like As St. Paul Was Converted, Just So Are All Others Converted; For We All Resist God, But The Holy Ghost Draws The Will Of Mankind, When He Pleases, Through Preaching.

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

It's Not What I Don't Know That Bothers Me - It's What I Do Know And Don't Do!

Religion Is Not 'doctrinal Knowledge,' But Wisdom Born Of Personal Experience.

Personal Experiences

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

It Is Pleasing To The Dear God Whenever Thou Rejoicest Or Laughest From The Bottom Of Thy Heart.

One Drop Of Christ's Blood Is Worth More Than Heaven And Earth.

I Shall Never Be A Heretic; I May Err In Dispute, But I Do Not Wish To Decide Anything Finally; On The Other Hand, I Am Not Bound By The Opinions Of Men.

I Maintain That Some Jew Wrote It Who Probably Heard About Christian People But Never Encountered Any.

Ultimately, However, Conflict Lies Not In Objective Reality, But In People's Heads. Truth Is Simple One Argument - Perhaps A Good One, Perhaps Not - For Dealing With The Difference. The Difference Itself Exists Because It Exists In Their Thinking.

He [christ] Died For Me. He Made His Righteousness Mine And Made My Sin His Own; And If He Made My Sin His Own, Then I Do Not Have It, And I Am Free.

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.

Whoever Would Like To Cherish Such Adders And Puny Devils - Who Are The Worst Enemies Of Christ And Us All - To Befriend Them And To Do Them Honour Simply In Order To Be Cheated, Plundered, Robbed, Disgraced, And Forced To Howl And Curse And Suffer Every Kind Of Evil, To Him I Would Commend The Jews. And If This Is Not Enough, Let Him Tell The Jews To Use His Mouth As A Privy, Or Else Crawl Into The Jew's Hind Parts, And There Worship The Holy Thing, So As Afterwards To Be Able To Boast Of Having Been Merciful, And Of Having Helped The Devil And His Progeny To Blaspheme Our Dear Lord.

Your Work Is A Very Sacred Matter. God Delights In It, And Through It, He Wants To Best His Blessings On You. This Praise Of Work Should Be Inscribed On All Tools, On The Forehead And The Faces That Sweat From Toiling.

The Slender Capacity Of Man's Heart Cannot Comprehend The Unfathomable Depth And Burning Zeal Of God's Love Toward Us.

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.

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.

The Gospel Cannot Be Truly Preached Without Offense And Tumult.

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

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

I Would Not Have Preachers Torment Their Hearers, And Detain Them With Long And Tedious Preaching.

It Is The Duty Of Every Christian To Be Christ To His Neighbor.

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?

A Dairymaid Can Milk Cows To The Glory Of God

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

God Created The World Out Of Nothing, And So Long As We Are Nothing, He Can Make Something Out Of Us.

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.

The Devil Fears The Word Of God, He Can't Bite It; It Breaks His Teeth.

Reason Must Be Deluded, Blinded, And Destroyed. Faith Must Trample Underfoot All Reason, Sense, And Understanding, And Whatever It Sees Must Be Put Out Of Sight And ... Know Nothing But The Word Of God.

No Greater Mischief Can Happen To A Christian People, Than To Have God's Word Taken From Them, Or Falsified, So That They No Longer Have It Pure And Clear. God Grant We And Our Descendants Be Not Witness To Such A Calamity.

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

Personally I Declare That I Owe The Pope No Other Obedience Than That To Antichrist.

The Hair Is The Richest Ornament Of Women.

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.

If I Did Not See That The Lord Kept Watch Over The Ship, I Should Long Since Have Abandoned The Helm. But I See Him! - Through The Storm, Strengthening The Tackling, Handling The Yards, Spreading The Sails - Yes More, Commanding The Very Winds! Should I Not Be A Coward If I Abandoned My Post? Let Him Govern, Let Him Carry Us Forward, Let Him Hasten Or Delay; We Will Fear Nothing!

The Authority Of Scripture Is Greater Than The Comprehension Of The Whole Of Man's Reason.

I Cannot And Will Not Recant Anything, For To Go Against Conscience Is Neither Right Nor Safe. Here I Stand, I Can Do No Other, So Help Me God. Amen.

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.

Music Is The 5th Gospel.

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

Nothing Is Easier Than Sinning.

The Gospel Cannot Be Preached And Heard Enough, For It Cannot Be Grasped Well Enough ... Moreover, Our Greatest Task Is To Keep You Faithful To This Article And To Bequeath This Treasure To You When We Die.

We Need Not Invite The Devil To Our Table; He Is Too Ready To Come Without Being Asked. The Air All About Us Is Filled With Demons.

What Shall We Christians Do Now With This Depraved And Damned People Of The Jews? ... I Will Give My Faithful Advice: First, That One Should Set Fire To Their Synagogues. . . . Then That One Should Also Break Down And Destroy Their Houses. . . . That One Should Drive Them Out The Country.

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

Prayer Is Not Overcoming God's Reluctance. It Is Laying Hold Of His Willingness.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Great Thieves Go Scott-free, As The Pope And His Crew.

After Theology I Give To Music The Highest Place And The Greatest Honor.

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.

All The Cunning Of The Devil Is Exercised In Trying To Tear Us Away From The Word.

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

Inspirational Kindness

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.'

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?

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

If We Wish To Wash Our Hands Of The Jews Blasphemy And Not Share In Their Guilt, We Have To Part Company With Them. They Must Be Driven From Our Country.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Faith, Like Light, Should Always Be Simple And Unbending; While Love, Like Warmth, Should Beam Forth On Every Side, And Bend To Every Necessity Of Our Brethren.

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

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.

Next To Theology I Give To Music The Highest Place And Honor. And We See How David And All The Saints Have Wrought Their Godly Thoughts Into Verse, Rhyme, And Song.

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.

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

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

Faith Is A Living, Daring Confidence In God's Grace, So Sure And Certain That A Man Would Stake His Life On It One Thousand Times. This Confidence In God's Grace And Knowledge Of It Makes Men Glad And Bold And Happy In Dealing With God And With All Creatures; And This Is The Work Of The Holy Ghost In Faith.

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.

For Some Years Now I Have Read Through The Bible Twice Every Year. If You Picture The Bible To Be A Mighty Tree And Every Word A Little Branch, I Have Shaken Every One Of These Branches Because I Wanted To Know What It Was And What It Meant.

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

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.

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.

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

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

It Is Necessary To Understand That Black Power Is A Cry Of Disappointment. The Black Power Slogan Did Not Spring Full Grown From The Head Of Some Philosophical Zeus. It Was Born From The Wounds Of Despair And Disappointment. It Is A Cry Of Daily Hurt And Persistent Pain.

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

What The Situation Will Be Like In The World Before The Lord Returns, Namely, Christ Will Be Despised, And The Preachers Of The Gospel Will Be Regarded As Fools.

The Clergy Is The Greatest Hindrance To Faith.

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

A Man Who Has No Part In The Grace Of God, Cannot Keep The Commandments Of God, Or Prepare Himself, Either Wholly Or In Part, To Receive Grace; But He Rests Of Necessity Under The Power Of Sin.

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

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.

One Thing, And Only One Thing, Is Necessary For Christian Life, Righteousness, And Freedom. That One Thing Is The Most Holy Word Of God, The Gospel Of Christ.

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

If You Want To Interpret Well And Confidently, Set Christ Before You, For He Is The Man To Whom It All Applies, Every Bit Of It.

Therefore The Blind Jews Are Truly Stupid Fools.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

To Pray Diligently Is More Than Half The Task.

If The Heart Has Been Reformed By The Spirit, It Makes Use Of Both The Useful And Delightful Things Created And Given By God In A Holy Manner And With Thanksgiving.

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

When Schools Flourish, All Flourishes.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

God Does Not Give Grace Freely In The Sense That He Will Demand No Satisfaction, But He Gave Christ To Be The Satisfaction For Us.

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

Anything That One Imagines Of God Apart From Christ Is Only Useless Thinking And Vain Idolatry.

Oh, What Thoughts Man Might Have Had About The Fact That God Is In All Creatures, And So Might Have Reflected On The Power And The Wisdom Of God In Even The Smallest Flowers!

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

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.

Whenever The True Message Of The Cross Is Abolished, The Anger Of Hypocrites And Heretics Ceases.. And All Things Are In Peace. This Is A Sure Token That The Devil Is Guarding The Entry To The House, And That The Pure Doctrine Of God's Word Has Been Taken Away. The Church Then, Is In The Best State When Satan Assaileth It On Every Sideboth With Subtle Sleights, And Outright Violence. And Likewise, It Is In The Worst State When It Is Most At Peace!

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.

God Our Father Has Made All Things Depend On Faith So That Whoever Has Faith Will Have Everything, And Whoever Does Not Have Faith Will Have Nothing

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