Martin Luther Quotes
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The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.
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Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.
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The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.
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We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.
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Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.
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Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in disguise.
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Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.
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The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.
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The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.
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Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.
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The papists ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so childishly to toddle along the benches, nay, to creep in the mire, and cannot skip and dance, on such light feet and legs, over and outside of God's commandments, as they do, the strong heroes and giants ... God forbid that we should!
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God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.
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Those who read and rightly understand my teaching will not start an insurrection; they have not learned that from me.
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How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian.
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We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
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God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
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... a penny saved is better than a penny earned.
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Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
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God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.
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Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.
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Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.
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What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.
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Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift.
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Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.