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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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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.
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.
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
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
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.
We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
