God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!
We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.
God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.
When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.
We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.
The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.
Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.
The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?
Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen
As long as we live there is never enough singing.
Pray, and let God worry.
Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.
We must make a great difference between God's Word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth, yea, greater than death and hell, for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly.
Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.
The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.
It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do!
There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it one thousand times. This confidence in God's grace and knowledge of it makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures; and this is the work of the Holy Ghost in faith.
Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you
Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.
He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.
No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.
If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".
