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 LUTHERWho waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
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Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.
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All of a Christian’s life is one of repentance.
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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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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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We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
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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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They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
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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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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 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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Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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