The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

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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.

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I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

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When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

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No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

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Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

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We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

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