Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
MARTIN LUTHERIf you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
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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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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.
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If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.
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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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Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
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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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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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Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.
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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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We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
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I’ll trust in God’s unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.
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If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.
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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.
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