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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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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The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

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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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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

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The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

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A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

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

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