God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.
I’ll trust in God’s unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.
Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death.
Music is the 5th gospel.
Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.
Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.
The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal.
The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.
Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics eases and all things seem to be at peace.
The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.
Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you. This praise of work should be inscribed on all tools, on the forehead and the faces that sweat from toiling.
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
If you see yourself as a “little sinner” you will inevitably see Jesus as a “little savior”.
God doesn’t slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.
Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.