Martin Luther Quotes
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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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Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?
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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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Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.
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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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Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.
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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.
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We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.
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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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No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.
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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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Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.
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A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.
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We should die relying on grace alone.
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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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...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.
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Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?
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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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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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The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.
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God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
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Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing.
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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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We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.