God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.
MARTIN LUTHERWhoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
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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 simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.
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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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.
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Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen
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God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
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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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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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A man cannot do good before he is made good.
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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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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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Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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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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