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

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

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From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.

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Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.

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

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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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Pray, and let God worry.

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