Martin Luther Quotes
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False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.
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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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This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
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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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God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of Another -- God alone.
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Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
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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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A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.
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Whoso hearkens not to God's voice, is an idolator, though he perform the highest and most heavy service of God.
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Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!
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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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The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer & more certain than sense & life itself.
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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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To progress is always to begin always to begin again.
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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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God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.
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One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.
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Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
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To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
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It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.
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I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.
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God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.
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At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely.
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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.