Martin Luther Quotes
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Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
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I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
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What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?
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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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By the law is the knowledge of sin Rom 3:20, so the word of grace comes only to those who are distressed by a sense of sin and tempted to despair.
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I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.
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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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Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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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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Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"
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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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What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.
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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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Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.
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Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.
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The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
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Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.
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Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work be done.
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An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
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We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.
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God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.
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Faith is the yes of the heart.