Martin Luther Quotes
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A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.
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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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To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.
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This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from eternal death. It is His kingdom and His ministry, to preach the Gospel to the poor; that is His purpose. For to the great and holy He cannot come. They do not wish to be counted sinners, and therefore do not need His Gospel.
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Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.
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Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.
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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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I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them.
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Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.
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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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The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.
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Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.
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Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.
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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
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The true Gospel has it that we are justified by faith alone, without the deeds of the Law.
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A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.
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This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer ours but Christ's; and the righteousness of Christ is not Christ's but ours. He has emptied himself of his righteousness that he might clothe us in it, and fill us with it: and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us from them.
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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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What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?
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Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.
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I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.
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A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
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Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?