Martin Luther Quotes
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten.
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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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When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.
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An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
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As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
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Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.
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The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.
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To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.
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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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I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.
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We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.
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But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.
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Reason is the enemy of faith.
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I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him.
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A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.
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The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.
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A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 'tis a rare bird in the land.
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Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.
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If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".
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Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.
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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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So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee.
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The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.