We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
MARTIN LUTHERA Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
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Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.
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Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
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We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
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If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.
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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.
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The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
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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.
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Whatever you love most, that is your god.
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They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
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A gospel that doesn’t deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.
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For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need.
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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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When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
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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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God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
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Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
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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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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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Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.
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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.
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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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A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
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