Martin Luther Quotes
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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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The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.
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Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.
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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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God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
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Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe them My wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.
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One is not righteous who does much, but the one who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, 'Do this,' and it is never done. Grace says, 'Believe in this,' and everything is already done.
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If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.
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For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.
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A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.
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Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.
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Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.
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We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.
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God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.
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You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
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I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
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God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.
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Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.
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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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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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All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself.
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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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The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.