Justice

"Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully." -- Proverbs 28:5 NIV

Just like a man

RK: "You're so ying to my yang."
M: "I'd like to be ying in your yang."

From God's Own Child

"God's own child, I gladly say it: I am baptized into Christ!
He, because I could not pay it, gave my full redemption price.
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"Though my flesh awaits its raising, still my soul continues praising:
I am baptized into Christ; I'm a child of paradise!"

Closing Hymn

"Faith shall cry as fails each sense -- Jesus is my confidence!"

Does it rhyme with my catechism?

"A Christian, you see, has to learn that the devil can quote the truth and extol God's Word just as well as pious Christians.  Whoever does not learn this is easily deceived and led astray, and then it is all over with him.  For the person who allows himself to be fooled by sheep's clothing, him the wolf tears to pieces.  That is why we need to say, I want gladly to hear God's Word and the truth; but before I rely too much on what I hear, I want to see whether it rhymes with my catechism and the preaching I have heard up till now.

"The person, therefore, who is on his toes and not naively gullible, but searches the Word, that person has no problem.  But the person who is lackadaisical about his catechism and the doctrine he has previously learned, with ears only for every whimsical fanatic, that person is done for."  -- Martin Luther, from his sermon on Matt 7:15-23, 1533 AD, p.347 of Complete Sermons of Martin Luther, vol. 6

Glory

"As I have frequently advised, Christian and true theology does not present God to us in His majesty, as Moses and other doctrines do, nor does it command us to pry into the nature of God; but it orders us to acknowledge His will as set forth in Christ.  It was God's will that Christ should assume flesh, should be born and suffer death for our sins, and that this should be preached among all peoples ... Therefore, if you are dealing with the doctrine of justification and arguing about finding the God who justifies and accepts sinners, about where and how you should look for Him, then know of absolutely no God outside this man, Jesus Christ.  Him you should embrace, to Him you should cling with all your heart, stopping your speculation about His majesty.  For he who would pry into the majesty of God is overcome by His glory.  I speak from experience and know what I am saying."  -- Martin Luther, What Luther Says, #4389

"The theology which is speculative, which forgetting itself, soars upward into matters divine, is looking for the fall of Satan -- and finds it, too."
 -- ibid, #4401

Also overheard on TV from the other room

"If you don't talk to children about things that don't matter, they'll never talk to you about things that do." -- Dr. Phil, on the Today show.