For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need.
MARTIN LUTHEREither sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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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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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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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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The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.
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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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Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
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I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.
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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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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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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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Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father’s heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.
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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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Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
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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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