Martin Luther Quotes
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I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.
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Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
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Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.
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If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.
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Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'
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A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.
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Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.
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Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.
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In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.
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The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.
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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
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I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.
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For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.
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To Christoph Scheurl (Christophoro Scheurlo), March 5, 1518.
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I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten.
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Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.
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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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We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
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Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
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If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years.
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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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A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.
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Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.