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Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.
Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.
Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"
If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".
Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.
When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.
The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.
It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.
The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.
We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.
I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.
Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.
It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.
Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.
The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.
I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!
That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.
At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.
Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.
Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.
Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.