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21. "A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all."
22. "They gave our Master a crown of thorns. Why do we hope for a crown of roses?"
23. "Next to faith this is the highest art -- to be content with the calling in which God has placed you."
24. "In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life."
25. "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."
26. "If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the Gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the Gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the Gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning."
27. "I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."
28. "My temptations have been my Masters in Divinity."
29. "...if ever a monk could get to heaven through monastic discipline, I was that monk....And yet my conscience would not give me certainty, but I always doubted and said, 'You didn't do that right. You weren't contrite enough. You left that out of your confession.' The more I tried to remedy an uncertain, weak, and troubled conscience with human traditions, the more I daily found it more uncertain, weaker, and more troubled."
30. "Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise."
