God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
MARTIN LUTHERI admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!
More Martin Luther Quotes
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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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As long as we live there is never enough singing.
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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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If you see yourself as a “little sinner” you will inevitably see Jesus as a “little savior”.
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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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Whatever you love most, that is your god.
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Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
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The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.
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A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
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We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
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Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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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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No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
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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 more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.
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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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Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
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A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.
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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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A gospel that doesn’t deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.
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There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
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The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
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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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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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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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