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Protestant Reformer Inspirational Quotes (794)

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Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and riches of his own faith.
Martin Luther
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Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law
John Calvin
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Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.
Martin Luther
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If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.
Martin Luther
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace evil, when grace is absent.
John Calvin
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
John Calvin
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Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.
Martin Luther
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Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.
John Calvin
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The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough.
Martin Luther
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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.
Martin Luther
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The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.
Martin Luther
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Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
Martin Luther
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We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
John Calvin
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Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
John Calvin
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
John Calvin
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I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.
Martin Luther
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Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.
Martin Luther
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Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.
Martin Luther
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Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.
Huldrych Zwingli
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All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
John Calvin
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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
John Calvin
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Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.
John Calvin
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Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
John Calvin
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The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.
John Calvin
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