Martin Luther Quotes
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The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?
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A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.
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A woman has no control over herself.
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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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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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God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.
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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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A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.
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Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.
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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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True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.
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It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
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That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.
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God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
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In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.
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Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?
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Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
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What the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.
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If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.
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Faith ever says, 'If Thou wilt,' not 'If Thou canst.'
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The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
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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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Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.