ON GETTING DRUNK:"Those who are Christians are to see to it that they are grateful for grace and redemption and conduct themselves modestly, moderately, and soberly, so that one does not go on living the swinish life that goes on in the filthy world.." "..In my time it was considered a great shame among the nobility [drunkenness]. Now they are worse than the citizens and peasants;.. We preach, but who stops it? Those who should stop it do it themselves; the princes even more. Therefore Germany is a land of hogs and a filthy people which debauches its body and its life. If you were going to paint it, you would have to paint a pig. "This gluttony is inundating us like an ocean.. We are the laughingstock of all the other countries, who look upon us as filthy pigs;.. It is possible to tolerate a little elevation, when a man takes a drink or two too much after working hard and when he is feeling low. This must be called a frolic. But to sit day and night, pouring it in and pouring it out again, is piggish. This is not a human way of living. not to say Christian, but rather a pig's life." - Martin Luther . Martin Luther
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  1. We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

  2. My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

  3. Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

  4. Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the...

  5. Be a sinner and sin boldly,  but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

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