Martin Luther Quotes
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The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.
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I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order....when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction - to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon.
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When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
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Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.
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For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
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Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
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Wir sind bettler. Hoc est verum.
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The Psalms are a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended.
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Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.
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Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.
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They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
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Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.
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Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.
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When you see a person squirming in the clutches of the Law, say to him: 'Brother, get things straight. You let the Law talk to your conscience. Make it talk to your flesh.
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Die heilige christliche Kirche ist das fürnehmeste Weil Gottes, umb welches willen Alles geschaffen ist; darinnen täglich die großen Wunder geschehen, als Sunde vergeben, Tod wegnehmen, Gerechtigkeit und ewiges Leben geben.
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We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, ' If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him.'
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It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!
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Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith. … Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.
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The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
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When we are inclined to boast of our position as Christians we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.
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Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is there to do it.
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I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
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From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.