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1. No particular endowments are requisite to give a finish to the art of cursing. The basest and meanest of mankind swear with as much tact and skill as the most refined.
2. The fewer the words the better prayer.
3. "Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want."
4. "Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches."
5. "I feel as if Jesus Christ died only yesterday."
6. "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works."
7. "If ever a man could be saved by monkery, that man was I."
8. "Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?"
9. "My conscience is captive to the Word of God."
10. "It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience."
11. "Hell is paved with good intentions."
12. "The world is a den of murderers, subject to the devil. If we desire to live on earth, we must be content to be guests in it, and to lie in an inn where the host is a rascal, whose house has over the door this sign or shield, 'For murder and lies.'"
13. "The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy."
14. "Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God."
15. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." (repeated 3 times)
16. "There is no more lovely, friendly or charming relationship, communion or company, than a good marriage."
17. "Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God."
18. "It is prosperity that we cannot endure."
19. "A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes."
20. "A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all."
21. "They gave our Master a crown of thorns. Why do we hope for a crown of roses?"
22. "Next to faith this is the highest art -- to be content with the calling in which God has placed you."
23. "In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life."
24. "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."
25. "If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the Gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the Gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the Gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning."
26. "I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."
27. "My temptations have been my Masters in Divinity."
28. "...if ever a monk could get to heaven through monastic discipline, I was that monk....And yet my conscience would not give me certainty, but I always doubted and said, 'You didn't do that right. You weren't contrite enough. You left that out of your confession.' The more I tried to remedy an uncertain, weak, and troubled conscience with human traditions, the more I daily found it more uncertain, weaker, and more troubled."
29. "Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise."
30. "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."
31. "We all carry about in our pockets His very nails."
32. "For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven."
33. "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?"
34. "Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the counsels of perfection while ordinary Christians fulfil only the commands; but there simply is no special religious vocation since the call of God comes to each at the common tasks."
35. "The idea that the service to God should have only to do with a church altar, singing, reading, sacrifice, and the like is without doubt but the worst trick of the devil. How could the devil have led us more effectively astray than by the narrow conception that service to God takes place only in a church and by the works done therein...The whole world could abound with the services to the Lord, Gottesdienste - not only in churches but also in the home, kitchen, workshop, field."
36. "What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow."
37. "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."
38. "Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous."
