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9813 Someone asked Luther: “Do you feel that you have been forgiven?”

He answered: “No, but I’m as sure as there’s a God in heaven.

For feelings come and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving;

My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.

Though all my heart should feel condemned for want of some sweet token,

There is One greater than my heart whose Word cannot be broken.

I’ll trust in God’s unchanging Word till soul and body sever;

For though all things shall pass away, his Word shall stand forever!”

Martin Luther (Founder of the German Reformation)

Faith is a living, bold trust in God’s grace, so certain of God’s favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.

Martin Luther (Founder of the German Reformation)