Martin Luther Quotes
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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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Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.
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Stubbornness should have been my middle name.
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Music is the 5th gospel.
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You have as much laughter as you have faith.
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The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.
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I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.
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He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.
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The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.
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God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.
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I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.
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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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Christian life consists of faith and charity.
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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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I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.
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I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
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Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.
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And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.
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Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.
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All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.
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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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I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.
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It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.