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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. Martin Lu

There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct

Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.

The body they may kill: Godâ€™s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and the Sacrament [i.e., communion/Eucharist/Lord's supper], and incorporated it in the Word and preaching. To our eyes Baptism [capitalized in original] appears to be nothin

Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don't notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam, but this was nothing in Adam's eyes; he was concerned about one tree and had to ask why God had forbidden him to eat it.

The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is there to do it.

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

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.

It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.

God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.

Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.

The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst.

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