Martin Luther Quotes
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A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.
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We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
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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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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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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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The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.
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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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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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Nothing is easier than sinning.
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Reason is the enemy of faith.
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They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
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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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A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
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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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So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee.
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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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We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.
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I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.
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Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.
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We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.
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How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.
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Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
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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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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.