Martin Luther Quotes
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Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
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I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.
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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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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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Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
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Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.
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Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.
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You have as much laughter as you have faith.
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I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.
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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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Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.
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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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The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.
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The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
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We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.
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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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I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
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Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
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Exhort your household to learn the Ten Commandments word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.
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But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.
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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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When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.
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It is essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject.
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Christian life consists of faith and charity.