The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
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.
Faith is under the left nipple.
The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.
The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.
This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.
Christian life consists of faith and charity
If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.
When schools flourish, all flourishes.
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.
When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.
People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.
You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.
I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!
I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.
Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.
Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.
Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.
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