C. F. W. Walther Quotes

• Grace is not something for which I must look in my heart. It is in the heart of God.

  C. F. W. Walther

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?

  C. F. W. Walther

  Love, God, Work

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• No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists

  C. F. W. Walther

  Christian, Men, Effort

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• A person is either a Christian or not; there is no in between state

  C. F. W. Walther

  Christian, States, Persons

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• How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with such a doctrine. Rather one must seek to convince him that the Savior is there for him, has already forgiven him, and has already accepted him. As soon as one makes faith even in the least a requirement for justification, one takes from such a person all the comfort of the Gospel.

  C. F. W. Walther

  Doubt, Despair, Comfort

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• We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside of (in addition to) the general and elementary curriculum, all branches of the classical high school, which are necessary for a true Christian and scientific education, such as: Religion, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French and English languages; History, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, natural history, Introduction to Philosophy, Music, and Drawing.

  C. F. W. Walther

  Christian, Philosophy, Latin

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• Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.

  C. F. W. Walther

  Vices, Inactivity

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