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.22102211Copy Quote
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.19861987Copy Quote
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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Nothing good ever comes of violence.
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.18171818Copy Quote
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!16571658Copy Quote
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
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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.13801381Copy Quote
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.13571358Copy Quote
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.13511352Copy Quote
Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.11971198Copy Quote
God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.11471148Copy Quote
We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
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From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.998999Copy Quote
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.909910Copy Quote
Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.
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The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.831832Copy Quote
When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
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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?769770Copy Quote
We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.
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A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.
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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 hands627628Copy Quote
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
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The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.583584Copy Quote
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
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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.451452Copy Quote
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it
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The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.439440Copy Quote
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. Amen407408Copy Quote
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
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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.358359Copy Quote
The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.332333Copy Quote
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.318319Copy Quote
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.295296Copy Quote
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.292293Copy Quote
Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.
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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.273274Copy Quote
As long as we live there is never enough singing.
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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.246247Copy Quote
Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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Pray, and let God worry.
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
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Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.228229Copy Quote
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.217218Copy Quote
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.216217Copy Quote
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!209210Copy Quote
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.196197Copy Quote
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.188189Copy Quote
I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.
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We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.179180Copy Quote
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you173174Copy Quote
Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].158159Copy Quote
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.153154Copy Quote
Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.150151Copy Quote
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.148149Copy Quote
It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do!
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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.135136Copy Quote
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.133134Copy Quote
People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.131132Copy Quote
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.129130Copy Quote
Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
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We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.117118Copy Quote
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.116117Copy Quote
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.114115Copy Quote
A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.
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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
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I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.110111Copy Quote
He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
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No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
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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!107108Copy Quote
When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.107108Copy Quote
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.106107Copy Quote
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