Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this. Huldrych Zwingli More Quotes by Huldrych Zwingli More Quotes From Huldrych Zwingli The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss. Huldrych Zwingli effort christian loss I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him. Huldrych Zwingli potters strong christ If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer. Huldrych Zwingli learned-person prayer wise Everything that is true is God's word, whoever may have said it. Huldrych Zwingli truth said may Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful. Huldrych Zwingli faithful sacrifice sin In this matter of baptism - if I may be pardoned for saying it - I can only conclude that all the doctors have been in error from the time of the apostles. . . . All the doctors have ascribed to the water a power which it does not have and the holy apostles did not teach. Huldrych Zwingli doctors errors water Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves. Huldrych Zwingli wealth sin giving
