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Vote:   | 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. |
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Vote: | Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. |
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Vote: | Blood alone moves the wheels of history. |
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Vote: | Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. |
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Vote: | First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Forgiveness is God's command. |
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Vote: | God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. |
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Vote: | God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars. |
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Vote: | Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen! |
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Vote: | How soon not now becomes never. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. |
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Vote: | Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. |
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Vote: | Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. |
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Vote: | Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death. |
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Vote: | My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. |
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Vote: | No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. |
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Vote: | Nothing good ever comes of violence. |
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Vote: | People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Pray, and let God worry. |
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Vote: | Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. |
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Vote: | Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has. |
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Vote: | Reason is the enemy of faith. |
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Vote: | Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. |
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Vote: | Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. |
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Vote: | The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. |
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Vote: | The fewer the words, the better the prayer. |
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Vote: | The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride. |
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Vote: | The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. |
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Vote: | The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. |
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Vote: | The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. |
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Vote: | To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. |
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Vote: | War is the greatest plague that can affect humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. |
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Vote: | War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. |
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Vote: | When I am angry I can pray well and preach well. |
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Vote: | Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long. |
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Vote: | You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. |