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.

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God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

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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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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

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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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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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We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

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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.

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The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

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We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.

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