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"No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!"
"The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works."
"The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory"
"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."
"Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory."
"We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life."
"Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation."
"The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory."
"God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church."
"Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God."
"The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much."
"If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned."
"In our good works nothing is our own."
"...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us."
"Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt."
"Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God."
"Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?"
"If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried."
"Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law."
"The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love."