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[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended.
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.
Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.
So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.
Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.
The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
I'll trust in God's unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.
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!"
Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.
The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.
If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.
Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.
Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .
You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.
We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.
We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.
Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics eases and all things seem to be at peace.
Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.
He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.
We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'
When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.
I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.
A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.
It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.
Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.