Martin Luther Quotes
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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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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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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We should die relying on grace alone.
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When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
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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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As long as we live there is never enough singing.
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God may delay, but He always comes.
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What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice: First, that one should set fire to their synagogues. . . . Then that one should also break down and destroy their houses. . . . That one should drive them out the country.
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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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People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.
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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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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 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.
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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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Stubbornness should have been my middle name.
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Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.
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...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.
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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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I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.
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In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.
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Wer anders lehret, denn ich hierinn gelehret hab, oder mich darinn verdammt, der verdamt Gott, und muß ein Kind der Höllen bleiben.
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Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.
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Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.