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

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

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Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

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We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

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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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

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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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