Martin Luther Quotes
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
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I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.
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Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
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The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?
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It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.
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This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.
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There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.
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A lot of people always use the term, 'I'm so blessed.' Most of it they believe is true.
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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You are a Witch. I am a Prince. In all the books, where there is a Witch and a Prince there is a way.
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I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.
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You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are.
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A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.
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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it.
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The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.
