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“I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.”
― Martin Luther

“The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.”
― Martin Luther

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
― Mother Teresa

“God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.”
― Martin Luther

“Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen."

(Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521)”
― Martin Luther, Luther's Works: Career of the Reformer III

“As long as we live there is never enough singing.”
― Martin Luther

“Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.”
― Martin Luther

“No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.”
― Martin Luther

“Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.”
― Martin Luther

“Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!”
― Martin Luther, Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses

“We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.”
― Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians

“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior. ”
― Martin Luther

“Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
― C.S. Lewis

“How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!”
― Martin Luther

“One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.”
― Martin Luther

“People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. ”
― Martin Luther

“And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us,
We will not fear,
for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.”
― Martin Luther

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther

“Worry is blind, and cannot discern the future; but Jesus sees the end from the beginning.”
― Ellen G. White

“Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.”
― Ellen G. White

“The first time the temptation comes, meet it in such a decided manner that it will never be repeated!”
― Ellen G. White, Ellen G White Study Bible with Spirit of Prophecy Comments KJV

“This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“Speech is silver, but silence is golden when hearers are inattentive.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.”
― C. H. Spurgeon

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
― René Descartes

“No person is free who is not master of himself.”
― Epictetus

“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”
― Martin Luther

“...when we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.”
― Elizabeth George