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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.

Martin Luther

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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Avoid Hairs Need Ourselves Temptation
Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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God Heart Prayer
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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Faith Future Hope Inspirational Myself Pieces Plant Tree
A man cannot do good before he is made good.
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Build Evil Goodness Himself Man
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
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Action Belief Hope World
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.
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Children Family Gift Himself True
If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.
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Born Happiness Heaven Laughter Perspective Place
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
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Accomplishment Result Time Wait
The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc; but how few acknowledge these as God’s special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.
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Body Gift God Gratitude Health Reaction Thankful
He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
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Christ Death Deep Freedom Himself Myself Religious Right Sin
Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.
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God Hide Religious Suffering
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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Comfortable Eyes Fools Help Man Need Neighbor Ourselves Poor Wisdom World
If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.
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Beginning Instruction Oneself Start Teaching Young
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
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Book God Religious
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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Feeling Himself Leaving Love Marriage Sorry
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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Forgiveness Fruit Growth Justice Life Religious

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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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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