"If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country."
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"When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again."
"God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat."
"All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ."
"A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all."
"In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone."
"All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard."
"Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews."
"Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry."
"Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes."
"To progress is always to begin always to begin again"
"Here I stand; I can do no other."
"If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth."
"We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace."
"For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that there is nothing which is able to pacify Him but this inestimable price, even the death and the blood of the Son of God, one drop of which is more precious than the whole world."
"But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them."
"Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God."
"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?"
"Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and riches of his own faith."
"We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us."