Martin Luther Quotes
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It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
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It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.
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There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.
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Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing.
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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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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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There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
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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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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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Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.
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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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Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
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You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.
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When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.
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Stubbornness should have been my middle name.
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All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.
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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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I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.
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When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.
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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.