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I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

Lord God ... use me as Your instrument
but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

We should give heed to what has been said by the heathen poet: "Do not yield to evils but proceed more boldly against them."15

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?

Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.

Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

Faith is Individual

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

With such and the like fopperies were petty brains troubled.

The cross alone is our theology.

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Romans 3:28

[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended.

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

An angel is a spiritual being, created by god without a body, for the service of Christendom.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.

Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.

The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

The body they may kill:
God's truth abideth still,
His Kingdom is forever.

The Devil ... clutched hold of the miserable young man ... and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.

In the third section, you proceed to turn us into modest and peace-loving Epicureans.

Christians are rare people on earth.

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

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

His righteousness rises above the sins of all men; His life is more powerful than all death; His salvation is more unconquerable than all hell.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works; evil works do not make a wicked man, but a wicked man does evil works.

If you consider this subject unnecessary for Christians, then please quit the field; you and I have nothing in common, for I consider it vital.

The world bears the Gospel a grudge because the Gospel condemns the religious wisdom of the world.

The best commendation of any work is to know that one has done the work that God has given him well and that God is pleased with his effort.

Whenever you are being praised, remember it is not you who is being praised but Christ, to whom all praise belongs.

May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope.

No great saint lived without errors.

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.

A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.

Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst.

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

We must pray and do our daily work, but everything we do must flow from faith.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

My father and mother did not think they should have brought a superintendent into the world.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt ... people.

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.

Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

Our whole life should be manly; we should fear God and put our trust in him.

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers - not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Despair makes priests and friars.