Martin Luther Quotes
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.
Martin Luther
Quotes to Explore
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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?
R. C. Sproul
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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.
R. C. Sproul
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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.
M. Russell Ballard
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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.
M. Russell Ballard
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
Oswald Chambers
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
Hans Kung
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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.
Quentin Crisp
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A lot of people always use the term, 'I'm so blessed.' Most of it they believe is true.
Rick Pitino
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
Pythagoras
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You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are.
Brett Brown
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Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
Sarah Dessen
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I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
Olivia Thirlby
