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Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV)

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The difference between religion of worth and worthless religion

Outward acts of…piety which do not flow from the new and God-given affections of the heart, which delight to depend on God and seek his glory are only legalism and have no value in honoring God.

~John Piper


What you are when you are alone with God, that you are – and nothing more. You may make a great show of love and faith in church, singing like Pavarotti or attracting the masses to your profound Sunday school lectures. But if there is no private communion between you and Jesus – frequent and deep communion – then your religion is worthless.

~Kirk Lundgaard


A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

~Martin Luther


You can have tons of religion without an ounce of salvation.

~ Author unknown

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When the merciful Father saw that we were being oppressed through the Law, that we were being held under a curse and that we could not be liberated from it by anything, he sent his Son into the world, heaped all the sins of all me upon him, and said to him: “Be Peter the denier; Paul the persecutor, blasphemer, and assaulter; David the Adulterer; the sinner who ate the apple in Paradise; the thief on the cross. In short, be the person of all me, the one who has committed the sins of all men. And see to it that you pay and make satisfaction for them.” Now the Law comes and says: “I find him a sinner, who takes upon himself the sins of all me. I do not see any other sins than those in him. Therefore let him die on the cross!” And so it attacks him and kills him. By this deed the whole world is purged and expiated from all sins, and thus it is set free from death and from every evil.

– Martin Luther on Galatians 3:13

Quoted by Timothy George in, “The Atonement in Martin Luther’s Theology,”  The Glory of the Atonement (274-275)

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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.
Martin Luther

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