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“Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.”
― Sermon on the Mount and the Magnificat
― Sermon on the Mount and the Magnificat
“So blind are we: with our bodily sickness and need we run to God; with the soul's sickness we run from Him, and are unwilling to come back before we are well, exactly as if there could be one God who could help the body, and another God who could help the soul; or as if we would help ourselves in spiritual need, although it really is greater than the bodily need. Such plan and counsel is of the devil.”
― Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes, Volume I
― Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes, Volume I
“God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.”
― Commentary on Galatians
― Commentary on Galatians
“The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness.”
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“Hence, when we ask anything of God and He begins to hear us, He so often goes counter to our petitions that we imagine He is more angry with us now than before we prayed, and that He intends not to grant us our requests at all. All this God does, because it is His way first to destroy and annihilate what is in us before He gives us His gifts; for so we read in I Samuel 2:6: “The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.” Through this most gracious counsel He makes us fit for His gifts and works. Only then are we qualified for His works and counsels when our own plans have been demolished and our own works are destroyed and we have become purely passive in our relation to Him.”
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