The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.
MARTIN LUTHERLord 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.
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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I simply taught, preached, wrote God’s Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
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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.
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Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
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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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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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A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.
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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.
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Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I’ll show you his god.
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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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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.
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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 hands.
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Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
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