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Quotes Page "prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a
strong and tranquil soul" "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" "There is no work better than another to please God; to pour
water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler,, or an apostle, all are one; to wash
dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the deed, to please God" "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen
not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else" "Talent is formed in solitude, but character in the storms of
life" "It is in fact more important to know what God did to Israel,
to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today..I find no
salvation in my life history but only in the history of Jesus Christ" "The Church is the one institution that exists for those
outside it" "Sir, you wish to serve God and go to heaven? Remember that
you cannot serve him alone. You must therefore find companions or make them.;
the Bible knows nothing of solitary religion" "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" "Live while you live, the epicure would say, "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" "When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words,
than thy words without a heart." "Grace is but Glory begun, and Glory is but Grace perfected" "Jesus does not fight the limits of humanness. Rather, he
submits in radical vulnerability, exposing the control systems by which human
beings try to bargain their righteousness" "I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it." "For in your sight I have become a riddle to myself, and this
is my infirmity" "Therefore the Christian heart, since it has been thoroughly
persuaded that all things happen by God's pla, and that nothing takes place by
chance, will ever look to him as the principal causes of things, yet will give
attention to the secondary causes in their proper place" "God cannot be comprehended by us, except as far as he
accommodates himself to our standard" "This is my only joy and heart's desire: to extend the Kingdom
of God, reveal the truth, reprove sin, teach righteousness, feed hungry souls
with the Word of the Lord, lead the straying sheep into the right path, and gain
many souls to the Lord through his Spirit, power, and grace. So would I carry on
in my weakness as he has taught me who purchased me, a miserable sinner, with
his crimson blood, and has given me this mind by the gospel of his grace, namely
Jesus Christ." "Was it not great blindness that God Almighty, who created us,
has so often made known to us that he is our Father, and finally even gave his
Son for us; and he himself stands there and calls us poor sinners, saying "Come
to me, all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest." And we went
and turned to the creature, and thought God to be so rough and cruel that we
dare not come to him." "The spontaneous jollity of the carefree extrovert comes to be
equated with healthy Christian living, and jolly extroverts in our churches are
encouraged to become complacent in carnality" "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?" "This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection,
but the preparation for it." "For every look as self, take ten looks at Christ" "We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in his
word, he intended to be conspicuous in our lives" "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today
of its strength." "Preach the Gospel at all times, use words when appropriate." "Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so
established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it." "God's timing has always troubled those who presume to know
better" "Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given
warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the other, perhaps it would have been
hindered from ever reaching maturity. "What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better,
not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can
use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through
methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not
anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer." "Perfection is founded entirely on the love of God: "Charity
is the bond of perfection;" and perfect love of God means the complete union of
our will with God's" "Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make
goodness much more serviceable" "Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear
both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other" "Look around upon all your possessions and say, what one thing
have you in the world which his goodness did not give you, and which he has not
thus preserved for you?" "The church of Christ is a common hospital, wherein all are in
some measure sick of some spiritual disease or other; that we should all have
ground of exercising mutually the spirit of wisdom and meekness" "OUR wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid
Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of
ourselves" "None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full."
"In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude"
"A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant" "Not only in the world of commerce but also in the world of
ideas our age has arranged a regular clearance-sale. Everything may be had at
such absurdedly low prices that very soon the question will arise whether any
one cares to bid" "In the Scriptures there is a portrait of God, but in Christ
there is God Himself. a coin bears the image of Caesar, but Caesar's son is his
own lively resemblance. Christ is the living Bible" "Spiritual rest makes no man idle, spiritual walking makes no
man weary" "By grace we are what we are in justification, and work what
we work in sanctification" "We have not and cannot give up anything for
God. We don't make sacrifices for God. for there is nothing that we have given
up that he has not already provided, or that he will provide." "Of all tear, they are best that are made by the blood of
Christ, and of all joy, that is the sweetest that is mixed with mourning over
Christ. Oh! it is a godly thing to be on our knees with Christ in our arms
before God. I hope to know something of these things" "The spontaneous jollity of the carefree extrovert comes to be
equated with Christian living, and the jolly extroverts in our churches are
encouraged to become complacent in carnality" "In efficacious grace we are not merely passive, nor yet does
God do some and we do the rest. But God does all, and we do all. God produces
all, we act all. For that is what produces, viz. our own acts. God is the only
proper author and fountain; we only are the proper actors. We are in different
respects, wholly passive and wholly active" "The revelation in Jesus Christ is reality, act, life,
presence of God. But the witness of the evangelists and the apostles was
expressed in words. Consequently, the revelation become something articulated.
In the process definition were born. What value and how much authority do these
words have? They are words of revelation. How then is the original apostolic
witness related to the words of later dogma?" "Infallibility is above all a characteristic of the Holy
Spirit and his work" "to one who pretends no claim but thy sovereign grace, give
him to be in thy mighty hand the blessed instrument of converting one soul; and
if it be but one,...it shall be most thankfully accepted as rich recompense for
all the thought and labor it may cost" "for life itself is not so very long nor so certain, that a
wise man should risk much upon its continuance" "The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own
eyes." "The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises
and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to
God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise." "theological liberalism was a different religion, a religion
of moralism and uplift, whereas Christianity s about sn and grace" "That knowledge is best which endeth in practice" "The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is
that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always
true" On Scripture: "Have not our suspicious hearts darkened this
book of light? Do we not often read it as the proclamation of a command to do,
instead of a declaration of what the love of God has done?" "See how wisely God provides that there should be plenty in
one place when there is scarcity in another, that, as members of the great body,
we may not say to one another "I have no need of you"" On Scripture: "We will not give God the credit when he speaks
in his tender mercy. We listen, as if His words were hollow; as if He did not
mean what he says; as if His message of grace, instead of being the most
thoroughly sincere that ever fell on human ears, were mere words of course. His
words are not mere random expressions, such as man often uses uttering vague
sentiment, or trying to produce an impression by exaggerated representations of
his feelings. God's words are all true and real....the genuine expressions of
the mind of that infinitely truthful being" "Therefore it is clear and well seen in all of us that we have
previously more often transgressed than we have amended. Therefore, there is
great need for us to take thought of ourselves and to intercede eagerly with God
Himself." from "Sermon of Wolf to the English". "Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the
mother" "Christians, so far to have their hours of prayer as may
serve, though not to bind, yet to remind conscience" "We cannot but admit that not even the least thing
takes place unless it is ordered by God. For who have ever been so concerned and
curious as to find out how much hair he has on his head? There is no one. God,
however, knows the number. Indeed, nothing is too small in us or in any other
creature, not to be ordered by the all-knowing and all-powerful providence of
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