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"For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you."
"A penny saved is better than a penny earned."
"Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in disguise."
"True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light."
"The cross alone is our theology."
"Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry."
"The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin."
"Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his salvation, he remains in carnal self-confidence; he is not a self-despairer, and therefore is not duly humbled before God, he believes he may lend a helping hand in his salvation, but on the contrary, whoever is truly convinced that the whole work depends singly on the will of God, such a person renounces his own will and strength; he waits and prays for the operation of God, nor waits and prays in vain"
"It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better."
"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."
"The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes."
"Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works."
"I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow."
"Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren."
"Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills."
"Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child."
"We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor."
"The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us."
"It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist."
"The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing."