God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.
MARTIN LUTHERGod does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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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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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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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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If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.
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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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If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.
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Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
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As long as we live there is never enough singing.
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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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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
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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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If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.
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Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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