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10 months 3 weeks ago

Mother love is stronger than the filth and scabbiness on a child, and so the love of God toward us is stronger than the dirt that clings to us.

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10 months 3 weeks ago

...so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

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On Justification CCXCIV
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For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel...Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.

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67. Compare "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part III, section 4, member 1, subsection 1
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The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

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Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

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... a penny saved is better than a penny earned.

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The Duty of a Husband and Wife (17 March 1539), No. 4408. LW 54:337
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For Christ is Joy and Sweetness to a broken heart. Christ is a Lover of poor sinners, and such a Lover that He gave Himself for us. Now if this is true, and it is true, then are we never justified by our own righteousness.

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Chapter 3, verse 20
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To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.

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Chapter 2
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The true Gospel has it that we are justified by faith alone, without the deeds of the Law.

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Chapter 2

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