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 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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God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

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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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A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

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

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

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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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