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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.

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Martin Luther

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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.

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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.

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

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

God Wants Us To Pray, And He Wants To Hear Our Prayers-not Because We Are Worthy, But Because He Is Merciful.

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

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.

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.

If The Earth Is Fit For Laughter Then Surely Heaven Is Filled With It. Heaven Is The Birthplace Of Laughter.

To Progress Is Always To Begin Always To Begin Again

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.

God Created Adam Lord Of All Living Creatures, But Eve Spoiled It All.

Teaching Is Of More Importance Than Urging.

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.

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

Christ Sayeth Not, Abstain From The Flesh, From Marrying, From Housekeeping, Etc., As The Papists Teach, For That Were Even To Invite The Devil And All His Fellows To A Feast.

We Should Die Relying On Grace Alone

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

People Must Have Righteous Principals In The First, And Then They Will Not Fail To Perform Virtuous Actions.

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.

No One Can Believe How Powerful Prayer Is And What It Can Effect, Except Those Who Have Learned It By Experience. Whenever I Have Prayed Earnestly, I Have Been Heard And Have Obtained More Than I Prayed For. God Sometimes Delays, But He Always Comes.

False Preachers Are Worse Than Deflowerers Of Virgins.

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 .

Out Of The Mountain Of Despair, A Stone Of Hope.

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

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.

Blessed Is He Who Submits To The Will Of God; He Can Never Be Unhappy.

The Holy Ghost Has Called Me By The Gospel And Illuminated Me With His Gifts And Sanctified And Preserved Me In The True Faith.

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

Take A Look At Your Own Heart, And You Will Soon Find Out What Has Stuck To It And Where Your Treasure Is. It Is Easy To Determine Whether Hearing The Word Of God, Living According To It, And Achieving Such A Life Gives You As Much Enjoyment And Calls Forth As Much Diligence From You As Does Accumulating And Saving Money And Property.

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.

I Have To Hurry All Day To Get Time To Pray.

This Error Of Free Will Is A Special Doctrine Of The Antichrist.

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.

Lord, Grant That Anger Or Other Bitterness Does Not Reign Over Us, But That Your Grace, Genuine Kindness, Loyalty, And Every Kind Of Friendliness, Generosity, And Gentleness May Reign In Us. Amen

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.

Against The Flying Ball No Valor Avails.

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

Christ Ought To Be Preached With This Goal In Mind--that We Might Be Moved To Faith In Him So That He Is Not Just A Distant Historical Figure But Actually Christ For You And Me.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We Need To Pledge Ourselves Anew To The Cause Of Christ. We Must Capture The Spirit Of The Early Church. Wherever The Early Christians Went, They Made A Triumphant Witness For Christ. Whether On The Village Streets Or In The City Jails, They Daringly Proclaimed The Good News Of The Gospel.

There Is No Justification Without Sanctification, No Forgiveness Without Renewal Of Life, No Real Faith From Which The Fruits Of New Obedience Do Not Grow.

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

Then They Began To Say: 'yes, But How Can We Know What Is God's Word, And What Is Right Or Wrong? We Must Learn This From The Pope And The Councils.' Very Well Then, Let Them Conclude And Say What They Please, Yet I Will Reply, You Cannot Put Your Confidence In That Nor Thus Satisfy Your Conscience, For You Must Determine This Matter Yourself, For Your Very Life Depends Upon It. Therefore God Must Speak To Your Heart: This Is God's Word; Otherwise You Are Undecided.

A Happy Fart Never Comes From A Miserable Ass.

Beer Is Made By Men, Wine By God.

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.

If Any Earthly Institution Or Custom Conflicts With God's Will, It Is Your Christian Duty To Oppose It. You Must Never Allow The Transitory, Evanescent Demands Of Man-made Institutions To Take Precedence Over The Eternal Demands Of The Almighty God.

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.

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

If I Could Today Become King Or Emperor, I Would Not Give Up My Office As Preacher.

I Put The Scriptures Above All The Sayings Of The Fathers, Angels, Men And Devils. Here I Take My Stand.

Men Are Not Made Religious By Performing Certain Actions Which Are Externally Good, But They Must First Have Righteous Principles, And Then They Will Not Fail To Perform Virtuous Actions.

The 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

Even If I Knew That Tomorrow The World Would Go To Pieces, I Would Still Plant My Apple Tree.

God Works By Contraries So That A Man Feels Himself To Be Lost In The Very Moment When He Is On The Point Of Being Saved.

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.

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

The Man Who Has The Will To Undergo All Labor May Win To Any Good.

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

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.

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 Holy Ghost Must Here Be Our Only Master And Tutor.

So Great Are The Effectiveness And Power Of The Word Of God That The More It Is Persecuted The More It Flourishes And Grows.

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