Martin Luther Quotes
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Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.
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The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.
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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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None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
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The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.
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No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
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Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.
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If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.
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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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I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.
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The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.
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Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.
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If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.
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No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.
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In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.
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There is no wisdom save in truth.
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Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.
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I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.
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It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Lord and still a Virgin.
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Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.
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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
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God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
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Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it.
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Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"