Martin Luther Quotes
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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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Faith ever says, 'If Thou wilt,' not 'If Thou canst.'
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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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We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.
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True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.
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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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The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.
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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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We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
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Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
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Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.
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By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words - or the words of others?
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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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For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite.
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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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God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.
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The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.
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It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.
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Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith.
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All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
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One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.
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I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.
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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 think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.