"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."
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"If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher."
"God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved."
"For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven."
"I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand."
"At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable."
"The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?"
"I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die."
"I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God."
"Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst."
"The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God."
"So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows."
"We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget."
"If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith."
"To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him."
"God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God."
"Animals are footprints of God."
"Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist."
"The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel."
"A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil."