Fear and Trembling: Write to Understand

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Write to Understand

Quotes

"The Christian faith is not true because it works; it works because it is true." —Os Guinness

"I have taken all my good deeds, and all my bad deeds, and have cast them together in a heap before the Lord, and have fled from both to Jesus Christ, and in him I have sweet peace.” – David Dickson, on his deathbed, 1663

"Christianity is not the move from vice to virtue, but rather the move from virtue to grace.” - Gerhard Forde

“It doesn’t take a great mind to be a Christian, but it takes all the mind a man has.” –– Richard C. Raines

“Dr. Luther, if I believed like you, I would do anything I please.

Luther: Exactly. And as a child of Christ . . . what pleases you?

Dr. Luther, what about works of penance?

Luther: What is it about your own miserable works and doings that you think you could please God more than the sacrifice of His own Son?” -Martin Luther, Tabletalk

“So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!” —Martin Luther

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11/09/2011

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