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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
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Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.
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A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God.
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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he God has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.
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Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.
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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
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Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
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What is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.
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Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favour that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace.
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Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God-- Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart Whose Word cannot be broken. I'll trust in God's unchanging Word Till soul and body sever, For, though all things shall pass away, HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER!
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Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.
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God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.
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One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
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For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.
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Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.
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If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
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Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.
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What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.
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The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
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All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.
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Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.
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