But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.

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A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

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Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.

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

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

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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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