Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
MARTIN LUTHERGod creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.
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The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.
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We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
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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.
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For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need.
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A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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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.
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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.
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If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.
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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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Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love receiving from above faith and giving out below love.
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This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.
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A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.
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