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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We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.
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In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.
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The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.
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Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.
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If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.
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We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.
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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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If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".
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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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The Bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.
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I shall not have it judged by any man, not even by any angel. For since I am certain of it, I shall be your judge and even the angels’ judge through this teaching (as St. Paul says 1 Cor. 6:3) so that whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God’s teaching and not mine.
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Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!
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Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"
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Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you. This praise of work should be inscribed on all tools, on the forehead and the faces that sweat from toiling.
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Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
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We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.
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Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.
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The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.
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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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It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.
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A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.