Martin Luther Quotes
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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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Christian life consists of faith and charity.
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Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
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The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart.
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Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.
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Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.
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Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
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Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.
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Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
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There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
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There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.
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All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.
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The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.
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Stubbornness should have been my middle name.
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He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.
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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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The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the Spirit. Thus all Christians must became priests, children of God and co-heirs with Christ the Most High Priest.
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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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God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.
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Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.
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Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.
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The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.
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You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.
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The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.