Martin Luther Quotes
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Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
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It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.
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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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If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
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The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
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Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.
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The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.
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The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.
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Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
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One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.
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Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.
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I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.
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When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.
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If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.
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God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.
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I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.
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But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.
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I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.
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We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.
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A woman has no control over herself.
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The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.
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It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garment. But even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.
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I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.
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This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.