Short Quotes on True Religion and Love

"a lively sense of the mercy of God in Christ Jesus will enable those who have it to walk in His fear and seek the welfare of others." (Gospel Standard 1948, p.81) James Abbot

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What is all religion without the Holy Spirit! An empty show and a weariness to the flesh." William Huntington

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You need the promises, so take them.  Overcome by the promises of God - “I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth” (Is 43:6).

 

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“Who then can pride himself over against someone else and claim to be better than he?  Especially in view of the fact that he is always capable of doing exactly the same as the other does and, indeed, that he does secretly in his heart before God what the other does openly before men.  And so we must never despise anyone who sins but must generously bear with him as a companion in a common misery.  We must help one another just as two people caught in the same swamp assist each other.  Thus we must ‘bear one another’s burdens and fulfill the law of Christ’ (Galatians 6:2).  But if we despise the other, we shall both perish in the same swamp.”

Wilhelm Pauck, translator, Luther: Lectures on Romans (Philadelphia, 1961), page 115.