All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.
May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope.
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
There is no wisdom save in truth.
Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.
If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.
A woman has no control over herself.
Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart' (Deut 6.5) that therefore you can love with all your heart? What do arguments of this kind prove, but the 'free-will' does not need the grace of God, but can do all things by its own power....But it does not follow from this that man is converted by his own power, nor do the words say so; they simply say: "if thou wilt turn,telling man what he should do. When he knows it, and sees that he cannot do it, he will ask whence he may find ability to do it..." 164
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness.
The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.
Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.
The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
When the Scripture speaks, God speaks
I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?
Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness and wellbeing, he may be enabled to labour, and to acquire and preserve property, for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfiling the law of Christ.
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.
Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.
Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.
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