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1. "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."
2. "I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ."
3. "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
4. "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next."
5. "Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ."
6. "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."
7. "My dear Jesus, my Savior, is so deeply written in my heart, that I feel confident, that if my heart were to be cut open and chopped to pieces, the name of Jesus would be found written on every piece."
8. "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
9. Calamity clarifies and comfort confuses; persecution purifies and prosperity pollutes!
10. "The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ."
11. "This Man (Jesus) suddenly remarks one day, 'No one need fast while I am here.' Who is this Man who remarks that His mere presence suspends all normal rules?"
12. "We may note in passing that He was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three results---Hatred---Terror---Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration."
13. "God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him, He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God."
14. "'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world."
15. "Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved."
16. "We cannot but admit that not even the least thing takes place unless it is ordered by God. For who have ever been so concerned and curious as to find out how much hair he has on his head? There is no one. God, however, knows the number. Indeed, nothing is too small in us or in any other creature, not to be ordered by the all-knowing and all-powerful providence of God."
17. "The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes."
18. "Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other."
19. "Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable."
20. "Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
21. "We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives."
22. "The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?"
23. Was it not great blindness that God Almighty, who created us, has so often made known to us that he is our Father, and finally even gave his Son for us; and he himself stands there and calls us poor sinners, saying "Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest." And we went and turned to the creature, and thought God to be so rough and cruel that we dare not come to him."
24. "God cannot be comprehended by us, except as far as he accommodates himself to our standard."
25. "Therefore the Christian heart, since it has been thoroughly persuaded that all things happen by God's plan, and that nothing takes place by chance, will ever look to him as the principal causes of things, yet will give attention to the secondary causes in their proper place."
26. "I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it."
27. "The idea that the service to God should have only to do with a church altar, singing, reading, sacrifice, and the like is without doubt but the worst trick of the devil. How could the devil have led us more effectively astray than by the narrow conception that service to God takes place only in a church and by the works done therein...The whole world could abound with the services to the Lord, Gottesdienste - not only in churches but also in the home, kitchen, workshop, field."
28. "There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle, all are one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the deed, to please God."
29. "What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow."
30. "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world".
31. "All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient."
32. "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."
33. "When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all."
34. "The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the son shines on it."
35. "Oh, this is a reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied till we are brought to this."
36. "Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all."
37. "Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone."
38. "We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God."
39. "We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy."
40. "The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.
