Luke’s Reviews > The Christian in Society, Vol. I > Status Update
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"Suppose a group of earnest Christian laymen were taken prisoner and set down in a desert without an episcopally ordained priest among them. And suppose they were to come to a common mind there and ...elect one of their number...and charge him to baptize, say mass, pronounce absolution, and preach the gospel. Such a man would be as truly a priest as though he had been ordained by all the bishops...in the world."
— May 31, 2020 05:25AM
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Luke
is on page 365 of 440
"You see, dear reader, how overwhelmed I am by the size and number of their lies, so that I am not able to follow them up with arguments! A forest, a sea, a wilderness of lies - this is their famous monkery!"
However, in this treatese, Luther, I think, could have benefited from an editor.
— Jul 05, 2020 04:59AM
However, in this treatese, Luther, I think, could have benefited from an editor.
Luke
is on page 317 of 440
"This is the definition of being a Christian: simply believing you are justified by the works of Christ alone without any works of our own, believing you have been freed from your sins and saved."
— Jun 28, 2020 05:06AM
Luke
is on page 279 of 440
"When a man has both the promise and Christ himself, he is absolutely certain of what God thinks about him: thoughts of peace and reconciliation because the blood of Christ declares the remission of sins and says, 'Abba, Father' in our hearts."
— Jun 21, 2020 04:52AM
Luke
is on page 239 of 440
"Is it not only right that every Christian man know the entire holy gospel by the age of 9 or 10? ...We do not see this pitiful evil, how today the young people of Christendom languish and perish miserably in our midst for want of the gospel, in which we ought to be giving them constant instruction and training...I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme."
— Jun 14, 2020 05:26AM
Luke
is on page 189 of 440
"Spiritual authorities should rule over matters which are spiritual. ...but spiritual matters are not money or material things; they are faith and good works."
"Let every man stay in his own parish; there he will find more than in all the shrines... in your own parish you find baptism, the sacrament, preaching, and your neighbor, and these things are greater than all the saints in heaven."
— Jun 07, 2020 05:12AM
"Let every man stay in his own parish; there he will find more than in all the shrines... in your own parish you find baptism, the sacrament, preaching, and your neighbor, and these things are greater than all the saints in heaven."
Luke
is on page 117 of 440
Treatise on Good Works. Wonderful!
"A man has enough to engage all his strength to keep the commandments of God, and even if he neglects everything else, he can never do all the good works he is commanded to do. Why then does he seek other works which are neither necessary nor commanded, and yet neglect those that are necessary and commanded?"
— May 24, 2020 05:13AM
"A man has enough to engage all his strength to keep the commandments of God, and even if he neglects everything else, he can never do all the good works he is commanded to do. Why then does he seek other works which are neither necessary nor commanded, and yet neglect those that are necessary and commanded?"
Luke
is on page 80 of 440
"Prayer...is a special exercise of faith, and faith makes the prayer so acceptable that either it will surely be granted, or something better than what we ask will be given in its stead. ...The evil spirit knows well enough how powerful one man's prayer is, how it hurts him and benefits all men. Therefore, this evil sprit does not willingly let praying happen."
— May 17, 2020 05:36AM
Luke
is on page 44 of 440
"Everything a man does in faith is well done in God's sight. ...A Christian man...can do all things ... gladly and willingly, not that he may gather merits and good works, but because it is a pleasure for him to please God in doing these things. He simply serves God with no thought of reward, content that his service pleases God."
— May 10, 2020 06:27AM
Luke
is on page 19 of 440
"Therefore, it is of the greatest importance for every married man to pay closer attention to the health of his child's soul than to the body which he has begotten, and to regard his child as nothing else but an eternal treasure God has commanded him to protect, and so prevent the world, the flesh, and the devil from stealing the child away and bringing him to destruction."
— May 03, 2020 10:00AM
