They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.
When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.
I did nothing. The Word did it all.
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.
The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.
Beer is made by men, wine by God.
I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal.
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.
Faith is the yes of the heart.
Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.
If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.
God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.
This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.
Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.
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