You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

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

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

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Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you

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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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The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

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

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