Martin Luther Quotes

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

Martin Luther

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• Righteousness
• Worker
• Presumption

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• I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.

  

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• Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy , and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all

  

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• Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

  

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• I no longer merely confess that I am the righteousness of Christ. I realize that with His DNA in me through His blood, I could be nothing else. I realize the attributes of His DNA reside in me - whether dormant or active.

  

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• Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Law
  • Righteousness
  • Worker