Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
MARTIN LUTHERIf ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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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.
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Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
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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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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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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 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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The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.
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Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.
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It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.
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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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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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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
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The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.
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Pray, and let God worry.
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This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
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The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
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Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.
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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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We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
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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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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
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Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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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!
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God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
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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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God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.
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