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 LUTHERStrange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.
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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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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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Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.
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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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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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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I’ll trust in God’s unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.
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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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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
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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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Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.
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As long as we live there is never enough singing.
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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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