God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
MARTIN LUTHERNow 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.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
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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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If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.
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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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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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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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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
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A man cannot do good before he is made good.
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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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Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father’s heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.
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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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Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
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God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
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No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
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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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As long as we live there is never enough singing.
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We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
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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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Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
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A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
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The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
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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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Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.
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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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