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"Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live."
"Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful."
"God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair."
"There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day."
"All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself"
"The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able."
"The devil is God's ape!"
"We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience."
"All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word."
"We are at fault for not slaying the Jews."
"You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God."
"Unthankfulness is theft."
"At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning."
"Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works."
"Your thoughts of God are too human"
"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."
"Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left."
"Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor."
"You have as much laughter as you have faith."
"This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist."