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?

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Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

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Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

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We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

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We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

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Pray, and let God worry.

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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.

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The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

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No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

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