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.
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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.
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Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.
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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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A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.
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Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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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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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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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
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God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.
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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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This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.
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We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
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The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
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