"Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God."
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"The Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand, it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand, it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so the soul will have a chance after it is changed."
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"I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such."
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"Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity"
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"If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it."
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"A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating."
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"At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely."
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"Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads."
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"The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting place. They sit as on a wheelbarrow, without a country, people or government... but they are rightly served, for seeing they refused have Christ and his gospel, instead of freedom they must have servitude."
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"The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough."
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"The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn."
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"When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it."
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"If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith."
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"Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons."
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"Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares."
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"False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins."
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"I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ."
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"Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment."
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"In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits."
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"If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them."
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