C.F.W. Walther Quotes

#1. Grace is not something for which I must look in my heart. It is in the heart of God.

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#2. Precision in matters of Christian doctrine is a hallmark of confessional Lutheranism, all for the sake of the Gospel.

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#3. Sin is lawlessness and constitutes the doer thereof a rebel against the righteous rule of His sovereign Lord.

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#4. No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists

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#5. In God, holiness and righteousness are the characteristics of the one Sublime, Sovereign Being, to whom no one can issue a command or lay down a law. In

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#6. Now, properly speaking, grace is never in a person's heart, but in God's heart. First a person must believe. After that he may feel. Feeling proceeds from faith - not faith from feeling.

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#7. The Gospel does not say, "you must do good works." Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect!

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#8. A person is either a Christian or not; there is no in between state

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#9. We see that the law was not reveal to us to put a notion into our heads that we could become righteous by it, but to teach us that we are completely unable to fulfill the law. Then we will know what a sweet message-what a glorious doctrine-the gospel is and move receive it with exuberant joy.

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#10. If the teaching of Christ were a law, it would not be a gospel {glad tiding}, but a sad tiding.

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#11. The main thing to tell a person when you explain how to become righteous is to announce to him for free grace of God, concealing nothing, saying none other than what God says in the Gospel. Build a fence around Mount Sinai, but not around Golgotha ,because at Golgotha all God's wrath was appeased.

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#12. A true Lutheran relies on God's Word and would not worry about it even if the whole world mocked and despised him for it. He does not consider the world an authority in religious matters. He rests his faith on higher authority:

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#13. Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.

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#14. I hope you have had spiritual experiences that have taught you that the only source of comfort when you are afflicted is the Word of God. Only it assures you of your salvation.

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#15. God has willed, is now willing, and will never cease willing, that man shall not sin. Sin

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