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"This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour."
"Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing"
"The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy."
"Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness."
"We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force."
"Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised."
"I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order....when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction - to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon."
"This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer ours but Christ's; and the righteousness of Christ is not Christ's but ours. He has emptied himself of his righteousness that he might clothe us in it, and fill us with it: and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us from them."
"A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out."
"Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures."
"I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher."
"Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit."
"Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape."
"For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more."
"As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything."
"Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain."
"What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them."
"Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever."
"I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth -- the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world; for thereupon most surely follow all manner of punishments, eternal and corporal."
"Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners."