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Young David and young Martin Luther would have lots to talk about on the subject of “dwelling constantly on the feeling that you are the most miserable sinner alive”.
— Feb 17, 2026 05:21PM
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“I saw so much of my hellish vileness that I appeared worse to myself than any devil. I wondered that God would let me live and wondered that people did not stone me, much more that they would ever hear me preach!”
— Feb 18, 2026 11:57AM
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“Sometime in August following, I became so weakly and disordered, by too close application to my studies, that I was advised by my tutor to go home and disengage my mind from study, as much as I could; for I was grown so weak that I began to spit blood.” Can’t say I’ve ever studied that hard….
— Feb 16, 2026 08:42PM
