We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.
There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!
I have covenanted with my Lord that He should not send visions, or dreams or even angels! I am content with this gift of the Scriptures, which teaches and supplies all that is necessary both for this life and that which is to come.
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.
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
A person who…does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?
Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.
To progress is always to begin always to begin again
Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.
A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.
Thus God’s work and His eyes are in the depths, but man’s only in the height.
If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.
Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.
Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there’s a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior.
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands
In his life Christ is an example showingus how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.
…so unbelief alone commits sin..Hence Christ calls unbelief the only sin.
Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
I am bound by conscience and the word of God. Therefore I can and will recant nothing, because to act against one’s conscience is neither safe nor salutary. Here I stad. I can do no ether. So help me God.
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law…
To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger for when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
Music is the art of the prophets the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope self.
Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.
In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain But the Lord is risen today Christ hath brought us life again Wherefore let us all rejoice Singing loud with cheerful voice Hallelujah!
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.
Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
A mighty fortress is our God A bulwark never failing Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.
God uses lust to impel men to marry ambition to office avarice to earning and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.
God uses lust to impel men to marry ambition to office avarice to earning and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.
The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.
Tomorrow I plan to work work from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
Some plague the people with too long sermons for the faculty of listening is a tender thing and soon becomes weary and satiated.
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.
Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs I would enter.
Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.