Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
MARTIN LUTHERWhoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father’s heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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I have so much to do today, I’ll need to spend another hour on my knees.
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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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God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.
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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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.
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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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The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.
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No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
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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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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
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Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love receiving from above faith and giving out below love.
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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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Pray, and let God worry.
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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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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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A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
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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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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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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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They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
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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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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
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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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The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
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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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